memoiristn.

1769 R. Griffith Gordian Knot xxxix, in R. Griffith & E. Griffith Two Novels III. 154 I must, though much unwilling, become my own memoirist, once more, lest the accounts which you may receive from others, should unfairly report this my second misfortune.

1839 G. Taylor Mem. Surtees in Surtees' Durham 95 (note) Memoranda..which the Memoirist was allowed to read.

1889 G. W. Cable Strange True Stories Louisiana ii. 48 Carlo was beginning to swear ‘fit to raise the dead’, writes the memoirist, at the tardiness of the Norman pair.

1904 Amer. Hist. Rev. 10 198 Sir Spencer's view of Napoleon III is that which de la Gorce, Ollivier, Thouvenel, and other French historians and memoirists have recently made popular.

1950 B. Falk Royal Fitz Roys 132 Historians and memoirists are slow to pay Grafton compliments.

1988 A. C. Grayling Wittgenstein i. 9 The chief memoirists came to know Wittgenstein when they were young students..which may in part explain their hero-worship.

1833 T. Carlyle Diderot in Crit. & Misc. Ess. (1872) V. 63 Towards reducing that same Memoirism of the Eighteenth Century into History.

1984 J. Updike Hugging Shore 808 In her collection of memoiristic essays, As They Were, meals consumed decades ago leap into full, precise, savored recollection.

1991 Descant Fall 162 This novel, without the male organizing principle of plot, will seem vaguely foreign and amorphous. It will seem memoiristic or essayistic.