autofictionist

English

Etymology

From autofiction +‎ -ist.

Noun

autofictionist (plural autofictionists)

1. 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.