Noun
One who keeps a diary.
Source: Webster's dictionaryNow I say I'm a diarist with an explanation I'll get back to you on. Someday I may try and write in memoir form. Carrie Fisher
The nature of the video camera really makes you focus on the present. Since I have always been a diarist filmmaker, not one who stages scenes with actors, it has always been about the present moment. Jonas Mekas
"A very calm and easy going mailman," the diarist Victor Klemperer wrote, "who is not at all National Socialist, said, 'Well, he simply sentenced them.' Source: Internet
Count Andrei Shuvalov, chamberlain to Catherine, knew the diarist James Boswell well, and Boswell reports that Shuvalov shared private information regarding the monarch's intimate affairs. Source: Internet
It's moments like these, and like the bawdy saloon-house skits that, in the words of one diarist, "made brothers out of strangers," that Petrakos is most interested in. Source: Internet
Notably, the diarist and naval administrator Samuel Pepys (1633–1703) and his wife were both amateur players of the flageolet, and Pepys was later an amateur recorder player. Source: Internet