Memorialist

Origin

memorial + -ist

Full definition of memorialist

Noun

1. A writer of memorials.
• 2007, January 8, Richard Eder, Ultimate Exile: A Gypsy Poet Expelled by Her People, The impediment comes in Mr. McCann’s effort to fashion a novel out of a search; in this case his diligent immersion in the work of scholars, the writings of Romany (now a preferred term) poets and memorialists, and his studies and travels in Slovakia, where much of the book is set.

Anagrams

• immortalise