anecdotist

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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

He was always being something less or something more: a gossip, an anecdotist or, more often, an essayist.

From Time Magazine Archive

Carson may be the most gifted anecdotist now writing.

From Time Magazine Archive

Piersoll, recalling that the anecdotist had killed other salmon in his time, made a hasty adieu and went to his hostess, who lingered in the drawing room with the younger men.

From Ewing\'s Lady by Wilson, Harry Leon

A man who was continuously firing off adages and axioms would be as terrible an infliction as the inveterate anecdotist or the everlasting pun-producer.

From Proverb Lore Many sayings, wise or otherwise, on many subjects, gleaned from many sources by Hulme, F. Edward (Frederick Edward)