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ming pool and a two-room

writing studio where Mr. Roth

worked.

At times when he was writ-

ing, Mr. Roth “essentially lived

in the studio,” Mr. Bailey said,

sleeping there at night and re-

turning to the main house only

for meals.

Mr. Roth lived primarily at

the Connecticut home from

about 1996 to 2001, a “golden

age in his writing” during

which he produced three

books known as the American

Trilogy: the Pulitzer Prize-win-

ning “American Pastoral,”

“The Human Stain” and “I

Married a Communist,” said

Mr. Bailey. Later, Mr. Roth

split his time between Con-

necticut and New York City,

A.M. Stern, 15 Central Park West

has been home to celebrities like

actor Denzel Washington and mu-

sician Sting, who last year sold

his unit to a Hong Kong buyer for

$50 million. Last month, billion-

aire investor Daniel Och listed his

penthouse for $57.5 million, The

Wall Street Journal reported.

Building owners have access to

a 14,000-square-foot spa, a fit-

ness center, a private restaurant,

a screening room, a game room

and a library.

The apartment also comes

with a private wine cellar on the

lower floors of the building, a

separate one-bedroom service

apartment and two storage units.

—Katherine Clarke

Central Park Duplex in a Big-Ticket Building

Mr. Bailey said.

To store his book collection,

Mr. Roth turned one of the

rooms in the house into a li-

brary, with metal shelving in

the middle. The books remain

in the house for now, but will

eventually go to the Newark

Public Library along with

some personal effects. Most of

the furniture has been re-

moved, Mr. Klemm said. A

number of Mr. Roth’s personal

items, including typewriters,

were sold at auction in July.

Mr. Roth was one of many

prominent people attracted to

scenic Litchfield County to

“hide in the hills,” said Mr.

Klemm, who handled the sale

of the late playwright Arthur

Miller’s home in nearby Rox-

bury last year. Mr. Roth and

Mr. Miller knew each other

and sometimes socialized, Mr.

Bailey said. Other well-known

residents of the area include

Graydon Carter, Dustin Hoff-

man and Meryl Streep, accord-

ing to people familiar with the

Philip Roth’s roughly 150-acre estate in rural
Connecticut couldn’t be farther from working-
class Newark, N.J., where the author grew up
and which he chronicled in his novels. But the
Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist “became very at-
tached to quiet, rural surroundings,” and found
that the solitude helped him write, according to
Blake Bailey, who is work-
ing on an authorized biog-
raphy of the writer.
Mr. Roth died last year
at 85, and the Connecticut
property where he lived
for decades and wrote a
number of his books is
listing for $2.925 million.
The divorced writer had no children; the prop-
erty is being sold by his estate, according to
listing agent Peter Klemm of Klemm Real Estate.
Located in the town of Warren in Litchfield
County, about a two-hour drive from New York
City, the property is composed of pastures and
woods crisscrossed with stone walls, said Mr.
Klemm. Flanked by maple trees, the three-bed-
room, clapboard house was built around 1790,
and has many of its original details. The
grounds also include a barn, an in-ground swim-

Philip Roth’s

Rural Home

For Sale

area and public records. Mr.

Roth bought the house in 1972

for $110,000 in cash, Mr. Bai-

ley said, and added adjoining

properties over the years. “He

bought everything around him

for privacy,” Mr. Klemm said.

Mr. Roth did something

similar in New York, buying

the apartments next to and be-

low his Upper West Side

condo, then renting them out

to tenants he knew would be

relatively quiet and wouldn’t

disturb his writing, Mr. Bailey

said. The estate listed Mr.

Roth’s apartment earlier this

year for $3.2 million, along

with the adjacent studio for

$680,000. The properties re-

cently sold for a total of

roughly $3.6 million to a fam-

ily who plans to combine the

two apartments, said listing

agent Lisa Lippman of Brown

Harris Stevens. The unit Mr.

Roth owned below his apart-

ment sold in June for $1.55

million to the tenants who had

rented it from the writer, Ms.

Lippman said.

—Candace Taylor

Goldman Sachs’s departing

coder-in-chief lists in the

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A sprawling penthouse at 15
Central Park West, one of New
York City’s most expensive condo
buildings, is coming on the mar-
ket for $65 million.
The 5,902-square-foot, four-
bedroom duplex apartment is on
the southeast corner of the build-
ing overlooking Central Park.
There are 1,071 square feet of
wraparound terraces that can be
accessed from the main living
room and the dining room as well
as the upstairs master suite. An
elaborate curving staircase con-
nects the floors.
The master suite includes a
separate sitting room as well as
double bathrooms. In one, the
bathtub is positioned beneath a
large window overlooking the
park.
The seller is Lindsay Rosen-
wald, an investor and entrepre-
neur in the bio pharmaceuticals
industry. Dr. Rosenwald bought
the property for about $30.55
million in 2008, shortly after the
building was completed, public
records show.
Felise Gross of Brown Harris
Stevens, who is listing the prop-
erty with colleagues Diane
Abrams and David Kornmeier,
said Dr. Rosenwald is selling be-
cause he lives primarily outside
the city, and barely uses the unit.
He has opted to rent it over the
past few years, she said. Dr.
Rosenwald declined to comment.
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