Mark Singer, a staff writer at The New Yorker from the age of 23 who extended the magazine’s franchise of rich reporting and witty prose about offbeat, complicated and quintessentially American characters, died on Friday in Manhattan. He was 75.
The cause of death, in a hospital, was cancer of the salivary gland, his son Tim said.
Mr. Singer wrote urbane “Talk of the Town” pieces for the front of the magazine, reflected on serious national matters like the Affordable Care Act and did a hitch traveling the country as the correspondent for the “U.S. Journal” column.
But he was best known as a profiler.
