Judge blocks publication of Salinger spinoff book

Jul. 1, 2009
A federal judge ruled Wednesday that a Swedish author cannot publish in the United States a book he wrote that was advertised as a sequel to J.D. Salinger's "The Catcher In The Rye." U.S. District Judge Deborah Batts issued her ruling in Manhattan after...
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