What is "memoirist"

Usage examples of "memoirist".

Equally important, in the opinion of the memoirist, there was a special welcome at these soirees for the young people of every nation.

American and Swiss years there would be swarms of fellow teachers and fellow scientists, students, publishers, journalists, and critics who knew him at Welles-ley, Harvard, or Cornell or visited him in his Montreux retreat, but in the late 1920s and early 1930s in Berlin there were almost no other writers as young as Nabokov who would survive the war and could play the part of memoirists after his death.

White House memoirists do, to give the last four hundred years of my genealogy.

Poets do it too, and essayists and memoirists and biographers and travel writers and nature writers and journalists and letter writers.

Likewise, several modern-day historical novelists and memoirists, even those not dealing directly with ancient Greece, served as sources of inspiration, though more often of despair at my ever being able to rise to the heights of poetry and historical insight they attained.

Writing about my teachers, I feel with growing dissatisfaction that I have fallen into one of the many ruts made by generations of professional memoirists, where one speaks of the gymnasium as a dollhouse -- from above, at a distance, with a sad smile, the pedagogues presented in gentle, forgiving caricature.

It took a long time for such attitudes to change, but already by the middle decades of the nineteenth century one can discern a new veneration of childhood on the part of those memoirists and writers who recalled their upbringing after 1812.

Time and time again these memoirists stress that it was their nanny who taught them how to love and how to live.