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
  • More recently, Irish novelists Sally Rooney and Claire Keegan have had huge international success.
    Kathy Rose O'Brien, CNN, 6 Mar. 2025
  • If Adichie the feminist-manifesto writer is comfortable dispensing advice in the form of shoulds and should nots, Adichie the novelist seems allergic to such judgments.
    Tyler Austin Harper, The Atlantic, 5 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
  • Anna Fiorentino is a storyteller focused on outdoors, adventure, and travel.
    Anna Fiorentino, AFAR Media, 28 Feb. 2025
  • Bridging the Gap Huemer believes the climate conversation needs a new kind of leadership—one that brings together artists, storytellers, engineers, and industrialists.
    Kody Boye, USA TODAY, 21 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Bob Brody, a consultant and essayist, is author of the memoir Playing Catch with Strangers: A Family Guy (Reluctantly) Comes of Age.
    Bob Brody, Fortune, 13 Feb. 2025
  • Lilly Milman is an essayist based in Boston, Massachusetts.
    Lilly Milman, Vox, 6 Feb. 2025

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“Memorialist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/memorialist. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.

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