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SALINGER v. RANDOM HOUSE, INC.

No. 86 Civ. 7574(PNL).

650 F.Supp. 413 (1986)

Jerome D. SALINGER, a/k/a J.D. Salinger, Plaintiff, v. RANDOM HOUSE, INC. and Ian Hamilton, Defendants.

United States District Court, S.D. New York.

November 5, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kaye Collyer & Boose, New York City (R. Andrew Boose, Jeremy Nussbaum, Marcia B. Paul, M. Graham Coleman, 2d of counsel), for plaintiff.

Satterlee & Stephens, New York City (Robert M. Callagy, Mark A. Fowler, of counsel), for defendants.

LEVAL, District Judge.

J.D. Salinger, the celebrated author of The Catcher in the Rye, Franny and Zooey, Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters, and many short stories, brings this action against Ian Hamilton and Random House, Inc., who are respectively the author and publisher of an unauthorized and as-yet unpublished biography entitled J.D. Salinger: A Writing Life. The biography draws heavily from copyrighted letters written by Salinger many years ago...

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