Salinger News
We at Hamish Hamilton were delighted to learn that one of our very favourite HH authors, long absent from public life, is alive and well.
J.D. Salinger, the 90-year-old author of The Catcher in the Rye, has just launched a legal action against an author who has purportedly written a spinoff “sequel” to the acclaimed novel, the Guardian newspaper has reported. Lawyers for the author filed the lawsuit in a federal court in Manhattan, seeking to stop the publication of 60 Years Later: Coming Through the Rye, by a writer using the name John David California. The lawsuit seeks unspecified damages and says the right to create a sequel to The Catcher in the Rye or use the character Holden Caulfield belongs only to Salinger. The lawsuit says Salinger – who has never allowed the novel to be filmed, staged or otherwise adapted – has “decidedly chosen not to exercise that right”.
Our thoughts and sympathies are with him.