Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A writer of memoirs; a biographer.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A writer of memoirs.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person who writes a
memoir .
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Examples
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You know, I've always bridled at the term memoirist because Ive wanted to be known for the quality of my writing as opposed to the particulars of my biography.
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You know, I've always bridled at the term memoirist because Ive wanted to be known for the quality of my writing as opposed to the particulars of my biography.
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You know, I've always bridled at the term memoirist because Ive wanted to be known for the quality of my writing as opposed to the particulars of my biography.
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You know, I've always bridled at the term memoirist because Ive wanted to be known for the quality of my writing as opposed to the particulars of my biography.
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You know, I've always bridled at the term memoirist because Ive wanted to be known for the quality of my writing as opposed to the particulars of my biography.
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You know, I've always bridled at the term memoirist because Ive wanted to be known for the quality of my writing as opposed to the particulars of my biography.
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You know, I've always bridled at the term memoirist because Ive wanted to be known for the quality of my writing as opposed to the particulars of my biography.
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As Walters brilliantly implied, a memoirist is a raconteur trying to strike up an acquaintance.
NYT > Home Page By JUDITH SHULEVITZ 2009
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Based on your reading of The 19th Wife, what kind of memoirist do you think the real Ann Eliza Young was?
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He's keen to show Johnson as an ahead-of-his-time liberal and also the kind of memoirist of mental illness who ends up on Oprah.
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