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

The anecdotist is not so truthful that cardinals need flush a deeper scarlet, like the roses in Bion's "Lament for Adonis," on account of a scandal resting on the authority of Menage.

From The Library by Lang, Andrew

Rattenden was an amusing anecdotist and had amassed a prodigious amount of raw material for his craft.

From Septimus by Locke, William John