What's the difference between memoirist and memorist?

Memoirist


Definition:

  • (n.) A writer of memoirs.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) That this was a debut novel by an unknown author makes it no less interesting to her than any other challenge of a career that has included collaborating with WG Sebald , rehabilitating the Austrian novelist and memoirist Stefan Zweig, and translating Kafka and Freud.
  • (2) The humility and humanity that Rusesabagina showed during the fastest genocide in history also make him a first-class memoirist.
  • (3) Last month, BBC 6 Music DJ and former Kenickie frontwoman Lauren Laverne sang their praises in a blog on the Pool entitled “Who do you want to be when you grow up?” “I’m incredibly grateful that so many of the women who inspired me as a teenager are still at it, showing all of us a new way to be 50, 60, 70…” she wrote, her list including Madonna, Debbie Harry, Siouxsie Sioux, Neneh Cherry, as well as most of the memoirists above.
  • (4) Either way, said the prolific memoirist, the judges did not want books that "stay on the shelf, half-read".
  • (5) Maddening, gorgeous, insolent, unique, she has been a poet, an acclaimed photographer, a memoirist, a mother, perhaps the last truly uncompromised artist in rock music.
  • (6) Johnson stepped down from the front bench in 2011 (he was briefly and unhappily Ed Miliband’s shadow chancellor) and has, since then, coupled constituency duties in Hull with semi-celebrity status as a memoirist and TV pundit.
  • (7) Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn , who has died aged 89, was a prolific novelist and memoirist, whose life's work, in the best traditions of Russian literature, transcended the realm of pure letters.
  • (8) Cusk is now perhaps most famous as a memoirist – her account of divorce, Aftermath, was a big deal in 2012.

Memorist


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, causes to be remembered.

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