memoirist
Americannoun
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Origin of memoirist
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He simply wrote it at a different time, when he was most famous, still, as a memoirist for Hillbilly Elegy, the story of his chaotic Appalachian upbringing.
From Slate ● Jun. 18, 2026
I reached out to best-selling memoirist and novelist Dani Shapiro to ask if she had her own experience with the book.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 2026
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
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 Nathaniel W. (Nathaniel Wright) Stephenson
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