raconteur

He was an engaging, funny and self-deprecating raconteur, ready with the quotable quip and the off-the-record gossip, which always assured him of an audience.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026

Jeremy Howe, who edits The Archers, called Greene "utterly singular, a fabulous and raucously funny raconteur" in a statement, calling her depiction of Jill "formidable, but also wonderfully warm, loving and enormous fun".

From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026

Mr. Man is knowledgeable and well-traveled, but as a historian he is more of a raconteur than a scholar.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 19, 2025

“I became a chutney cosmopolite,” he wrote, “and a raconteur of relish recipes.”

From Salon ● Jun. 2, 2025

Gregarious by nature, Hall proved to be a skillful raconteur with a caustic Kiwi wit.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer

All seem to use the word differently than in its usual application to novelists, playwrights and raconteurs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 12, 2025

The artists who made them have been reduced here, in what may be this show’s only true insult, into mere raconteurs of women’s lives.

From New York Times ● Jun. 1, 2023

Barry Humphries was described as one of the greatest raconteurs and stand-up comedians of his age.

From BBC ● Apr. 22, 2023

My dad was a sailor and one of the great raconteurs of all time.

From Salon ● Apr. 15, 2020

There are, to be sure, stand-up comedians, shaggy- dog raconteurs, consummate essayists, and authors of mystery novels who can build up curiosity and suspense and then resolve it all with a sudden revelation.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker