“All the President’s Men” author Carl Bernstein bought a place in Bridgehampton in 1983, later decamping to North Haven when the Hamptons summer scene proved intrusive and overwhelming. Sometimes they were joined by Mel Brooks, who was staying at his house on Flying Point Lane in Water Mill.
Since 1985, Puzo had summered at his home on Pantigo Road in East Hampton. For many years, Heller could be found lunching with “Godfather” author Mario Puzo and some other writers at Barrister’s in Southampton (now defunct). Joseph Heller of “Catch-22” fame settled in a 3-bedroom cottage on Skimhampton Road in Amagansett in 1982. The soaring Hamptons real estate prices of the 1980s were no deterrent to bestselling authors. Wilson won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1980 some of his best-known plays are “Fifth of July,” “Talley’s Folly,” and “Balm in Gilead.” Bestsellers Living By the Sea
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Beginning in 1970, playwright Lanford Wilson also spent half the year in his house on Suffolk Street in Sag Harbor Village, becoming a full time resident in 1998. Doctorow, who penned “Ragtime” and “Billy Bathgate,” kept a summer home at 44 John St. National Organization for Women cofounder and “Feminine Mystique” author Betty Friedan bought a waterfront cottage on upper Sag Harbor Cove, where she lived until her death in 2006.
The only author to ever win the National Book Award for both fiction (“Shadow Country”) and nonfiction (“The Snow Leopard”), Matthiessen lived in a cottage on Bridge Lane before his death in 2014.
after a stint with the CIA in post-WWII Paris (where he founded the Paris Review with childhood pal George Plimpton), Peter Matthiessen settled on the other end of the “Sag” axis: Sagaponack. “The Sea Lions,” James Fenimore Cooper Vonnegut, Plimpton and the ‘Sagg Main Set’ “Beach Road,” James Patterson and Peter De Jonge “Philistines at the Hedgerow: Passion and Property in the Hamptons,” Steven Gaines Steinbeck, who won the 1962 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for “The Grapes of Wrath,” melded into Sag Harbor life, frequenting an infamous roughneck bar on Main Street called the Black Buoy with his fisherman friends and his ever-present standard poodle Charley (from “Travels with Charley” fame). John Steinbeck moved to Sag Harbor in 1955, purchasing a waterfront cottage on Bluff Point. Sag Harbor was, and continues to be, a favorite bolthole for the writing set. Wayne Dyer and 2020 presidential candidate Marianne Williamson. Mulford later wrote “Thoughts Are Things,” launching the New Thought movement and giving rise to such authors as Norman Vincent Peale, Louise Hay, Dr. Prentice Mulford was born in 1834 and raised in what is now the Municipal Building on Main Street in Sag Harbor. Local lore credits Captain David Hand, a Sag Harbor denizen and Revolutionary War hero, as the model for Nathaniel “Natty” Bumppo, Cooper’s seminal hero in “The Leatherstocking Tales.” Cooper worked in the whaling business by day and wrote novels in his off time. James Fenimore Cooper started the Hamptons writers trend in 1818, moving to Sag Harbor to be near his wife’s family on Shelter Island. Writers in Sag Harbor: From Cooper to Steinbeck Here’s a look at famous writers - of books, plays, and screenplays - who’ve made their home in the Hamptons, and some classic tales set in the East End. For more than a century, though, the Hamptons region has also been where some of America’s most famous writers live, work and play (and, er, drink).
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