diarist
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“A diary is an assassin’s cloak which we wear when we stab a comrade in the back with a pen,” wrote William Soutar, a Scottish poet and diarist, in 1934.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026
Everyone’s favorite analog diarist is smack dab in the middle of a universe ruled by tech.
From Salon • Feb. 13, 2025
"For example, the diarist John Evelyn distributed 60 rings to his daughter's friends after her death - and the closer the friend, the better the ring," says Dr Geake.
From BBC • Dec. 28, 2024
Hur said there is “some reason to think” Carter and another enthusiastic diarist, George H.W.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 10, 2024
Women who knew Anne Frank in the Bergen-Belsen camp said that neither hunger nor typhus killed the young girl who would become the most famous diarist of the Nazi era.
From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden
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