autofictionist
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From autofiction + -ist.
Noun
[edit]autofictionist (plural autofictionists)
- A writer of autofiction.
- 2020 November 18, A[nthony] O[liver] Scott, “The Wild, Rangy, Unclassifiable Delights of Joy Williams’s Fiction”, in The New York Times[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-06-28:
- Look: a regional realist! A flock of autofictionists! Was that a postmodernist? I've never seen one in the wild.
- 2024 January 11, Katy Waldman, “Kate Zambreno Collects Herself”, in The New Yorker[2], New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-02-05:
- The autofictionist has made the drama of finding and losing the self central to her work. Raising two children during the pandemic prompted a change in focus.