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Wry, dryly funny, patrician, a great mimic, a seasoned anecdotalist, handsome into old age, his spoken sentences as beautifully constructed as his written ones, a lover of the crystalline prose and perfect plotting of P.G.

From New York Times • Dec. 13, 2020

Photograph: Eamonn Mccabe/Beowulf Sheehan Garrison Keillor – anecdotalist, radio host and laureate of small-town wholesomeness – is publishing a book of poetry, 77 Love Sonnets.

From The Guardian • Apr. 10, 2011

But there were many other sides to him, such as his sense of the ridiculous and his genius as an anecdotalist.

From The Guardian • Jan. 15, 2011

In Oedipus Wrecks, his efficiency is that of the perfectly practiced anecdotalist, not wasting a moment on irrelevant detail, yet knowing when to linger over the important ones.

From Time Magazine Archive

Prose is his easy chair, in which his genius as a humorist and anecdotalist can expand.

From Old and New Masters by Lynd, Robert