Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Memoir-Writer

A gatherer of memories (i.e. a writer who frames an account of his or her own personal experiences).

"When two memoir-writers had told the same tale, Suetonius and Tacitus accept it and endorse it, without a suspicion that both may be lying."

W. G. Clark, Vacation Tour (1860).

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