memoirist
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- noun
- /ˈmɛm.wɑɪ.rɪst/
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memorialista
- Photo (color): Memoirists want to find meaning in their painful experiences and to achieve a measure of solace.
She's a wonderful memoirist and teacher, and when asked about writer's block, I've told the story on the channel several times.
- She's a wonderful memoirist and teacher, and when asked about writer's block, I've told the story on the channel several times.
- Mary Carr, the memoirist who wrote Liars Club and I think lit, I think that's her other one, Liars Club, one of my favorite books.
Examples
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The memoirist makes a commitment to tell the emotional truth as it felt to him (p. 9).
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What should a potential memoirist do if she hasn't experienced anything particularly horrific?
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Of course, it helps if the memoirist has a good enemy.
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Here, then, is one of the most complex, least acknowledged ways in which a memoirist is forced into a necessary lie.
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I wanted to be a memoirist, but I didn't want to write about any old events.
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And yet, some memoirists exaggerate details in their writing.
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Ann Hood is a novelist, a memoirist, an essayist, and the author most recently of the novel The Red Thread.
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Indeed, memoirists seek to render "the ordinariness of our lives so that it becomes significant" (Calkins, 1991, p. 169).
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After years of traveling and observing different cultures, she decided to become a memoirist and share her stories.
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The famous memoirist captivated readers with her honest reflections on her childhood and family life.
Synonyms
A person who writes about their own life and memories
A person who writes about their own life
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Etymology
Memoirist comes from memoir, a word tied to English memory that means 'memory' or 'personal story'. The ending -ist means 'person who', so a memoirist is someone who writes their own memories and life stories.