anecdotist
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He was always being something less or something more: a gossip, an anecdotist or, more often, an essayist.
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Carson may be the most gifted anecdotist now writing.
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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.
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In general, he was no joker, no anecdotist, and had but a feeble appreciation of droll sayings or humorous matters of any kind.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859 by Various
Rattenden was an amusing anecdotist and had amassed a prodigious amount of raw material for his craft.
From Septimus by Locke, William John