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

Carson may be the most gifted anecdotist now writing.

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.

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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 ancient anecdotist further says that "the thing was not known until after Plautianus's death."

From Roman Women by Brittain, Alfred