Sag Harbor lured literary lions long before it was discovered by hedge funders. It’s where John Steinbeck penned “The Winter of Our Discontent.” (“I grow into this countryside with a lichen grip,” the “Grapes of Wrath” scribe wrote to fellow writer John O’Hara.)
Betty Friedan, Spalding Gray and Herman Melville all lived here.
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Colson Whitehead even penned a coming-of-age novel about the town.
Now another Pulitzer Prize-winner writer and playwright, Robert Schenkkan, is renting his Sag home for the summer. Schenkkan won a Pulitzer for his 1992 play, “The Kentucky Cycle”; another work, “All the Way,” earned the 2014 Tony Award for Best Play.
His home, at 12 Partridge Road in Sag Harbor, is asking $150,000 from June through August, but it is also available per month: $45,000 for June; $50,000 for July; and $55,000 for August.
The four-bedroom, 4½-bathroom home is 2,850 square feet. Built in 2004, the home sits on six acres and comes with a pool. It’s in “turn-key” condition, the listing notes, with hardwood floors, an open layout and a chef’s kitchen — all on a cul-de-sac two miles outside Sag Harbor Village.
Schenkkan tells Gimme Shelter he’s renting his place because he needs to be back in the city to focus on some “exciting new television work I’m creating and I need to be nearer my collaborators.” But, he adds, he’ll miss his Sag Harbor deck, trees, pool and landscaping — and his kitchen, where he loves to cook and entertain.
The listing broker is Douglas Elliman’s Rima Mardoyan Smyth.