anecdotist
Example Sentences
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He was always being something less or something more: a gossip, an anecdotist or, more often, an essayist.
From Time Magazine Archive
An unhurried Jewish anecdotist, a patient sketcher of modest, baffled characters, a leisurely Talmudic dialectician, Agnon is not the sort of writer to have spectacular impact.
From Time Magazine Archive
Carson may be the most gifted anecdotist now writing.
From Time Magazine Archive
The pursuit of such identity of incident may the more cheerfully be left to the anecdotist, in that the biographical value of Amelia, is far more than incidental.
From Henry Fielding: a Memoir by Godden, G. M.
The gifted anecdotist replied with a long laugh, then cried, 'Good-night, young ladies!' and sank peacefully to slumber.
From The Odd Women by Gissing, George
