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.