memoirist
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of memoirist
Example Sentences
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I remember wondering whether the literary memoirist I so enjoyed could present a big-picture argument with all the necessary historical asides while carrying forward a heavy, double-barreled thesis.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 26, 2025
Cowley was a poet, critic, memoirist, translator and editor.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 7, 2025
Its unwieldiness is an apt metaphor for memoirist Barbra Streisand, who has tried to control everything since she became a star at 19.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 24, 2023
Indeed, for all his success as an actor and, more recently, a bestselling memoirist, Perry told The Times in April that his work was not the center of what he hoped would be his legacy.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 28, 2023
Still later a very sane memoirist, Henry B. Rankin, who knew Lincoln, and is not at all an apologist, takes the same view.
From Lincoln; An Account of his Personal Life, Especially of its Springs of Action as Revealed and Deepened by the Ordeal of War by Stephenson, Nathaniel W. (Nathaniel Wright)
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