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
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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
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • 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
  • In front of a live audience, Matar stabbed Rushdie more than a dozen times, leaving the 77-year-old novelist permanently blind in one eye.
    Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 21 Feb. 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
  • 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
  • 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
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 4 Mar. 2025.

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