memorialist

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Recent Examples of memorialist Alan White and famed rock member memorialist Cynthia Plaster Caster. Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 2 Dec. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for memorialist
Noun
  • This was true for autobiographers and for belletristic authors.
    Tim Brinkhof, JSTOR Daily, 11 Dec. 2024
  • Most Black autobiographers never even planned to publish (or thought about publishing) their books commercially.
    Tim Brinkhof, JSTOR Daily, 11 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Historians and biographers work around archival gaps to delicately stitch together suppressed histories, but fiction writers can take more creative liberties to reconcile the past.
    Lauren LeBlanc, Los Angeles Times, 5 Mar. 2025
  • In the decades since, critics and biographers have pushed back on this dim view of Frost.
    Maggie Doherty, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Included among dozens of other characters are a submarine commander and his crew, a creepy coroner, a sweaty spy, an American flyboy, and even the soon-to-be spy novelist Ian Fleming.
    Frank Rizzo, Variety, 21 Mar. 2025
  • In Grade’s lifetime, he was considered one of the most important living Yiddish novelists—by those who could read Yiddish.
    Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 16 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • But only hagiographers believe that one man created today’s France.
    Stephen Kotkin, Foreign Affairs, 18 Apr. 2024
  • William’s hagiographer, the monk Thomas of Monmouth, laid out this unsubstantiated account in excruciating detail, leading to the canonization of the dead boy; like mushrooms after rain, accounts of miracles arose around his tomb.
    Talia Lavin, The New Republic, 29 Sep. 2020
Noun
  • Like many storytellers with a passion for seeking justice, Rangeley followed college with law school and a career in social and criminal justice.
    Dominic Patten, Deadline, 13 Mar. 2025
  • Originally titled Creators Forum, the Storytelling Summit was created to connect independent storytellers with industry veterans.
    Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 6 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Born in London in 1882, Milne was a prolific humorist, editor, essayist and playwright.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Jan. 2025
  • Meg Bernhard is a journalist and essayist based in Las Vegas.
    Meg Bernhard, Hazlitt, 4 Jan. 2025

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“Memorialist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/memorialist. Accessed 24 Mar. 2025.

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