60 YEARS LATER: COMING THROUGH THE RYE - J.D. Salinger Sues Over Sequel

06/04/2009:

"What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff," says Holden Caulfield in the literary masterpiece The Catcher in the Rye. " . . . I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all." It seems H.C.'s creator, J.D. Salinger, 90, has stepped into the field himself. But he's not trying to catch poor saps beaten down by social convention. He's after an alleged plagiarist.

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