For the JAG character see Lieutenant Loren Singer, USN (JAGC).Loren Adelson Singer (5 March 1923, Buffalo, New York – 19 December 2009, Valhalla, New York) was an American novelist, known best for his 1970 political thriller, The Parallax View, which was made as a successful 1974 movie, of the same name.Singer was born in Buffalo, New York on March 5, 1923. After he completed high school he enlisted with the United States Army.