Mark Singer

writer

Mark Singer has been a staff writer at *The New Yorker* since 1974. He has contributed hundreds of Talk of the Town stories and scores of Profiles and reporting pieces. In the fall of 2000, he revived the U.S. Journal column in the magazine, a monthly feature that was written by Calvin Trillin from 1967 to 1982. Singer's account of the collapse of the Penn Square Bank of Oklahoma City appeared in *The New Yorker* in 1985 and was published as a book, *Funny Money*, that same year. In 1989, he published *Mr. Personality*, a collection of his reporting from *The New Yorker*. In 1996, Singer published *Citizen K: The Deeply Weird American Journey of Brett Kimberlin*, which originated as an article in the magazine. His most recent books, *Somewhere in America*, (2004) and *Character Studies*, (2005), are collections of articles that originally appeared in *The New Yorker*.