anecdotist

Vrettos, an American writer, is an excellent anecdotist.

He is just the opposite in conversation, a nonstop anecdotist with the booming voice and affable manner of a radio disc jockey and an inveterate outsider's eye for comic detail.

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.

Again, there is a great hiatus in the Annals of Tacitus, a true historian, at the period covering the earlier days of the Empress; while Suetonius, bitter as he may be, is little more than an anecdotist.

The author, a formidable anecdotist and public radio personality, pours out a mixed bag of his neuroses in this collection of autobiographical pieces, which range from childhood episodes in North Carolina to his recent escapades living with his boyfriend in Paris.