'Catcher' Sequel Is Quashed

J.D. Salinger's classic inspired a Swede to pen a successor. (1951 Photo By Associated Press)

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Associated Press
Thursday, July 2, 2009

NEW YORK, July 1 -- A federal judge has ruled 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."

Judge Deborah Batts issued her ruling Wednesday after hearing arguments in a lawsuit brought by the 90-year-old Salinger against the publishers of "60 Years Later: Coming Through the Rye."

The book was scheduled to be published in the United States this summer.

'Catcher' Sequel Is Quashed

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