memorialist
/məˈmɔriəlɪst/
noun
- A person who writes a memoir or historical account based on personal experience.
- As a memorialist, he recorded the daily lives of ordinary people in the 19th century.
- The library has a collection of works by a well-known memorialist from the colonial era.
- The famous memorialist wrote about her childhood during the war.
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