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One who has written a biography or historical account, based on personal knowledge

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  • As Walters brilliantly implied, a memoirist is a raconteur trying to strike up an acquaintance.
  • I don't think anyone is expecting Dan Brown to be the kind of memoirist that James Frey was.
  • Based on your reading of The 19th Wife, what kind of memoirist do you think the real Ann Eliza Young was?
  • Prof. KENNEDY: Well, yes, he -- he's one memoirist.
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