diarist
Americannoun
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One diarist, Samuel Bamford, gave up a warehouse job to become a weaver and wrote that the change gave him leisure time to enjoy “country amusements with the other young fellows.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025
Everyone’s favorite analog diarist is smack dab in the middle of a universe ruled by tech.
From Salon ● Feb. 13, 2025
On The Tortured Poets Department, she blurs the lines between her personas - writing both as diarist and fantasist, sometimes within the same song.
From BBC ● Apr. 19, 2024
The youngest diarist, 10-year-old Yehor Kravtsov, also lived in besieged Mariupol.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 17, 2023
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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