as in autobiographer
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Noun
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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
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Hadi Matar was found guilty on Friday of attempting to murder the novelist Salman Rushdie in an onstage stabbing attack at a New York arts institute in 2022.—
Aleksandra H. Michalska and Jonathan Allen,
USA TODAY,
22 Feb. 2025
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The attack left the 77-year-old prize-winning novelist blind in one eye.—
Carolyn Thompson,
Los Angeles Times,
21 Feb. 2025
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Listen to this article Doris Kearns Goodwin, the famous historian and biographer of Abraham Lincoln, has said that only Jesus has been written about more than our 16th president over the past 165 years.—
Pam Kragen,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
16 Feb. 2025
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In this slim volume of essays, Marshall, a Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer, turns inward, reflecting on her discovery of old personal paraphernalia, including letters and photographs.—
The New Yorker,
The New Yorker,
10 Feb. 2025
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Instead, Larson will win it behind the strength of Hendrick Motorsports, the New York Yankees of NASCAR — setting him up for another championship-contending Cup season and leaving all motorsport storytellers despondent, wondering what could’ve been.—
Alex Zietlow,
Charlotte Observer,
16 Feb. 2025
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The writer of the issue was Peter David, a prolific genre storyteller whose own father fled the Nazis and who would later take to his website to compare the first Trump administration to Hitler.—
Darren Franich,
Vulture,
14 Feb. 2025
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But only hagiographers believe that one man created today’s France.—
Stephen Kotkin,
Foreign Affairs,
18 Apr. 2024
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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
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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
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Lilly Milman is an essayist based in Boston, Massachusetts.—
Lilly Milman,
Vox,
6 Feb. 2025
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With his distinct style, business sense and comedy that’s been steadily consumed by the masses for over a quarter of a century, the comic has developed a fabulist folklore around his rise to fame akin to his favorite things outside of stand-up — videogames and professional wrestling.—
Nate Jackson,
Los Angeles Times,
2 Jan. 2025
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The infamous Long Island fabulist needs revenue from the podcast to pay the $205,000 in forfeiture cash that would be due a month before sentencing, his lawyers wrote in a letter to Federal Court Judge Joanna Seybert.—
John Annese,
New York Daily News,
8 Jan. 2025
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“Memoirist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/memoirist. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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