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In February 1977, Esquire published " For Rupert-with no promises " as an unsigned work of fiction: this was the first time it had published a work without identifying the author.

Readers speculated that it was the work of J. D. Salinger, the reclusive author best known for The Catcher in the Rye.

Told in first-person, the story features events and Glass family names from the story " For Esmé – with Love and Squalor ".

Gordon Lish is quoted as saying, " I tried to borrow Salinger's voice and the psychological circumstances of his life, as I imagine them to be now.

And I tried to use those things to elaborate on certain circumstances and events in his fiction to deepen them and add complexity.