# Wanderer

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- Authors: [Sterling Hayden](https://www.bookquiver.com/sterling-hayden)
- Language: en_US
- Published: 2026-06-08
- Genres: Biography: general, Reportage, journalism or collected columns

## Description

Sterling Hayden was at the peak of his earning power as a star when he suddenly quit. He walked out on Hollywood, walked out of a shattered marriage, defied the courts, and, broke and an outlaw, set sail with his four children in the schooner Wanderer--bound for the South Seas. Long before he was an actor, Hayden was a seaman. He had sailed before the mast and as mate and captain in sailing ships. He had been a Grand Banks fisherman. Then Hollywood offered him a screen test. Pushed to stardom, he became the leading man to one of the screen's most beautiful women, and the money began to flow. With money and fame, however, came a gnawing dissatisfaction with his life. His attempt to escape launches this autobiography. It is the candid, sometimes painfully revealing confession of a man who scrutinizes his every self-defeat and self-betrayal in the unblinking light of conscience. It is also the triumph of a complex and contradictory man, still a rebel and a seeker, undefeated by his failure to find himself in love, adventure, drink, or escape to the South Seas. It is, as Eugene Burdick said of it, " utterly fascinating, written by a man who has been able to achieve an honesty about himself which is almost unique."

## Editions

### Wanderer

- Publisher: WW Norton & Co
- ISBN: 978-03-9333-628-3
- Pages: 480
- Published: 2026-06-08
- Language: en_US