miscellanist

Adjective

 * 1) Having the characteristics of a miscellany.

Noun

 * 1) An author or editor of one or more miscellanies; one who produces written works having a wide range of forms or kinds of content.
 * 2) * 1889, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell, Littell's Living Age, 5th series, vol. 66, p. 492:
 * Leigh Hunt tried almost every conceivable kind of literature, including a historical novel. All this we may not unkindly brush away, and consider him first as a poet, secondly as a critic, and thirdly as what can be best, though rather unphilosophically, called a miscellanist.
 * 1) * 1942, Yamato Ichihashi, "The Maker of Modern Japan by A. L. Sadler" (book review), Pacific Historical Review, vol. 11, no. 1, p. 89:
 * Professor Sadler relied heavily on a voluminous work (still unfinished, although some 60 volumes have already been published) by Tokutomi Iichiro, History of the Japanese People in Modern Times. Unfortunately, this Japanese journalist, a prolific writer and a miscellanist, is not accepted as a historian among scholars.