diarists
Personal record keepers
Diarists are people who keep diaries—personal written records of daily events, thoughts, and observations.
The term applies both to private journal-keepers and to those whose diaries have become historically or literarily significant: Samuel Pepys and Anne Frank remain among history's most celebrated diarists.
Record of daily events
- entriesItems logged or submitted
- memoirWritten personal recollection
- notebookBlank pages for jottings
- logbookOfficial record of events
autobiography · record · jotting · daybook · log · travelogue · blog · scrapbook
- archivesStored historical documents
- primary sourcesFirsthand historical evidence
- eyewitnessOne who saw events
- testimonySworn statement as evidence
Virginia Woolf · heritage · legacy · antiquity · epoch · era · firsthand accounts
Observing one's own mind
- self-examinationScrutiny of one's thoughts
- contemplationSustained reflective attention
- ruminationProlonged, repetitive thinking
- self-reflectionExamining one's own mind
self-scrutiny · self-observation · self-analysis · self-discovery · meditation · pondering · soul-searching · musing
Author of personal recollections
- chroniclerWriter of historical accounts
- bloggerWeb journal author
- vloggerSomeone posting video journals
- correspondentJournalist covering distant events
journal
Record of daily events
logbook · autobiography · record · jotting · daybook · log · travelogue · blog · scrapbook · commonplace book
Anne Frank
- archivesStored historical documents
- primary sourcesFirsthand historical evidence
- eyewitnessOne who saw events
Virginia Woolf · testimony · heritage · legacy · antiquity · epoch · era · firsthand accounts
introspection
Observing one's own mind
- self-examinationScrutiny of one's thoughts
- contemplationSustained reflective attention
- ruminationProlonged, repetitive thinking
self-reflection · self-scrutiny · self-observation · self-analysis · self-discovery · meditation · pondering · soul-searching · musing · self-expression
memoirist
Author of personal recollections
- chroniclerWriter of historical accounts
- bloggerWeb journal author
- vloggerSomeone posting video journals
- lesser-known writersanonymous authors
- historical womenCleopatra, Joan of Arc, Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Victoria, Marie Curie
- notable womenRosa Parks, Harriet Tubman, Eleanor Roosevelt, Florence Nightingale, Susan B. Anthony
- thinkersthinkers, thinker, philosophers, philosopher, Aristotle
- Mexican WarZachary Taylor, Santa Anna, Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant, James K. Polk
diaristsbiographers
Writers of life stories
historians · hagiographers · ghostwriters · chroniclers · obituarists
diaristspublic intellectuals
Academics speaking to masses
essayists · pamphleteers · op-ed writers · speechwriters · journalists