memoirist
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concept
A memoirist is a writer who crafts narrative accounts of their own lived experiences, reflecting on personal events, relationships, and inner transformations to convey meaning and insight.
Aliases (4)
- autobiographer ×5
- astronaut memoir ×1
- graphic memoirist ×1
- military memoir ×1
Instances (50)
- Lisa Brennan-Jobs
- Jennie Jerome
- Maxine Hong Kingston
- Charles de Gaulle
- Henry Adams ("autobiographer")
- Babur
- Ulysses S. Grant ("autobiographer")
- Duff Cooper
- Malcolm X ("autobiographer")
- Alison Bechdel ("graphic memoirist")
- Sterling Hayden
- Maggie Nelson
- June Havoc
- Sophia Tolstaya
- Evelyn Waugh
- Lillian Rogers Parks
- Harriet Jacobs
- Fernande Olivier
- Siegfried Sassoon
- Françoise Gilot
- Lord Clarendon
- Clifford Irving
- To Space and Back ("astronaut memoir")
- Christopher Isherwood
- Errol Flynn ("autobiographer")
- Lillian Hellman
- Norris Church Mailer
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
- Tennessee Williams
- Maksim Gorky
- Margit von Mises
- Alexei Maximovich Peshkov
- Maxine Ting Ting Hong
- Gulbadan Begum
- Svetlana Iosifovna Stalina
- Xiao Zisheng
- Journals of Major Robert Rogers ("military memoir")
- Svetlana Alliluyeva
- Leslie Lynch King Jr. ("autobiographer")
- Candice Bergen
- Margot Tennant
- Frances Spatz Leighton
- Ruby Dee
- Pablo Neruda
- Maya Angelou
- Truman Streckfus Persons
- Clive James
- Suze Rotolo
- Clarissa Spencer-Churchill