CBS newsman Mike Wallace, a longtime resident of the Vineyard who had been coming to the Island since childhood, died late Saturday at the age of 93. The television anchorman was a familiar figure here in the summer months, where he had owned a home on Hatch Road in Vineyard Haven until late last year. The neighborhood where Mr. Wallace lived was famously dubbed Writers’ Row because the late Art Buchwald, John Hersey and William Styron lived there along with Mr. Wallace; all were friends.

CBS reported Sunday that Mr. Wallace, a Brookline native, died at a care facility in New Haven, Conn., where he had lived in recent years. The CBS morning show Face the Nation aired a montage of Mr. Wallace’s most notable interviews. Charles Osgood also announced Mr. Wallace’s death on CBS’s Sunday Morning program just prior to Face the Nation.

“His success often lay in the questions he hurled, not the answers he received,” The New York Times wrote in an obituary for Mr. Wallace published on its Web site Sunday.

The relentless broadcast reporter took on politicians, celebrities and other public figures in a 60-year career highlighted by the on-air confrontations that helped propel 60 Minutes to the top of prime-time television news programs.

In his long career Mr. Wallace interviewed Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, Yasser Arafat and the Ayatollah Khomeini, among others. And until he was slowed by heart surgery as he neared his 90th birthday in 2008, he continued doing 60 Minutes interviews with such subjects as Jack Kevorkian and Roger Clemens. He had promised to still do occasional reports when he announced his retirement as a regular correspondent in March 2006.

His later contributions, after bowing out as a regular, included a May 2007 profile of GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney, and an interview with Dr. Kevorkian, the assisted suicide doctor released from prison in June 2007 who died in June 2011.

Mr. Wallace and his wife Mary sold their Hatch Road Vineyard haven home last October to former Virginia governor and current commonwealth Sen. Mark Warner. The house was formerly owned by Kingman Brewster, the late president of Yale University.

Mr. Wallace bought the house fronting the Vineyard Haven harbor in 1989 for $1.45 million. “It was kind of a tumbledown house,” he told the Martha’s Vineyard Magazine in a 2004 interview. “But the porch was there, the sailors’ bethel, the trees, the waterfront . . . Even as I talk I can see it and smell it and feel it . . . when the sun slants down from behind the house in the summer and you see the ferries coming by and the boats looking golden in the sunset, and you’re looking at the Sound — Mary and I sit there on the porch and think how lucky could we be?”

Myron Wallace was born on May 9, 1918, in Brookline. He began his news career in Chicago in the 1940s, first as radio news writer for the Chicago Sun and then as reporter for WMAQ. He started at CBS in 1951.

He was married four times, the last time in 1986 to Mary Yates Wallace, the widow of his close friend and colleague, Ted Yates, who had died in 1967. Besides his wife, Mr. Wallace is survived by his son, Chris, a stepdaughter, Pauline Dora, and stepson Eames Yates.