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 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.

As a historian he takes a low rank; as an abridger he is better, but best of all as a rhetorical anecdotist and painter of character in action.

From The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius by Cruttwell, Charles Thomas