The property includes a hexagonal writing hut Steinbeck called Joyous Garde that looks out over Morris Cove. The hexagonal writing hut at John Steinbeck's Sag Harbor home. Credit: Newsday/Tony Jerome ...

Steinbeck bought the cottage, located on secluded Bluff Point Lane, in 1955 and spent summers there until his death in 1968. He filled his days there with fishing and writing.

On Dec. 20, 1968, John Steinbeck died with his dog Angel, a Bull Terrier, at his side. He was 66.

But then I came across John Steinbeck’s writing diary from when he worked on The Grapes of Wrath, which was itself published as a book and highlighted (with copious examples) by Maria Popova ...

Steinbeck, best known for the Depression-era novel "The Grapes of Wrath," wrote his final two books at the house, and it was there that he learned he had won the Nobel Prize.