Meanings
plural autofictionists
- A writer of autofiction.
Look: a regional realist! A flock of autofictionists! Was that a postmodernist? I've never seen one in the wild.
2020 November 18, A[nthony] O[liver] Scott, “The Wild, Rangy, Unclassifiable Delights of Joy Williams's Fiction”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 28 Jun 20231 more example
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.
2024 January 11, Katy Waldman, “Kate Zambreno Collects Herself”, in The New Yorker, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 Feb 2024
Origin
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autofictionist. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/autofictionist
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