chronicler

noun

1. A person who writes a chronicle or chronicles.

   “But he was also a natural chronicler: one senses that, even as his schemes collapsed, this aesthetic Arab Quixote knew the stories would make great material for his witty, sharp, melancholic writings.”

name

1. The presumed author/redactor of the Book of Chronicles and certain other books of the Tanakh.

   “The Chronicler's survey of events in the history of Judah (often, but not always, from a positive perspective) is articulated through a theological framework centered on covenant. In short, the book of Chronicles recounts the faithful acts of ...”

   “[…] effort to prevent a fall back into the idolatry and apostasy that had brought on God's judgment in the first place. The Chronicler, like the postexilic prophets, did not desire a repeat of the Lord's judgment on Israel […]”