John Steinbeck?s Eden For Sale, Sag Harbor Home, New York State Residence, Historical Property, Architect, Images
John Steinbeck?s Eden in Sag Harbor
Sep 9, 2021
John Steinbeck?s Eden
Design: Blaze Makoid Architecture Architects
Location: Sag Harbor, New York, USA
John Steinbeck?s Sag Harbor Home is for sale, priced at $16.75 million

Source: toptenrealestatedeals.com
For the first time in 60 years, the Sag Harbor oceanfront cottage and octagonal writing retreat where John Steinbeck wrote The Winter of Our Discontent and Travels With Charley are for sale, priced at $16.75 million. It was Steinbeck?s self-described ?Eden,? his home from 1955 until he died in 1968.

One of America?s most important writers with both a Nobel and Pulitzer Prize, Steinbeck?s classic works include the novella Of Mice and Men (his dog chewed up the original manuscript) and the novels Grapes of Wrath and East of Eden.
John spent most of his early life in Southern California where he worked odd jobs, including farmworker, handyman, and tour guide before his success as a writer in his early 30s. Many of his best works were inspired by the people of California and from the trips he took across the United States.

Although California was his home state where there is a National Steinbeck Center Museum and where his Salinas boyhood home has been restored and open to the public, Steinbeck moved to New York in 1941, switching between New York City and Long Island?s Sag Harbor. At first a vacation an...