annalist (n.)

• author
• authoress
• autobiographer
• bibliographer
• biographer
• chronicler
• clockmaker
• coauthor
• collaborator
• columnist
• compiler
• composer
• copywriter
• critic
• diarist
• dramatist
• encyclopedist
• essayist
• genealogist
• ghost
• ghostwriter
• historian
• historiographer
• horologist
• humorist
• litterateur
• newspaperman
• novelist
• pamphleteer
• poet
• reviewer
• scenarist
• scribe
• scriptwriter
• storyteller
• timekeeper
• timer
• watchmaker
• wordsmith
• writer