anecdotist

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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

This Denbigh ancestry recalls a pleasant example of Fielding's wit, preserved in a story told by his son, and recorded in the pages of that voluminous eighteenth-century anecdotist, John Nichols.

From Henry Fielding: a Memoir by Godden, G. M.

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