Mononymous person break with his past. The new name combined several features. It was an anagram for a Latinized version of his family surname, "Arouet, l[e] j[eune]"; it reversed the syllables of the name of a family "château", Airvault; and it has implications of speed and daring through similarity to French expressions such as "voltige", "volte-face" and "volatile". "Arouet" would not have served the purpose, given that name's associations with "roué" and with an expression that meant "for thrashing". The 19th-century French author Marie-Henri Beyle used many pen names, most famously the mononym Stendhal, adapted from the name of the little Prussian
Marie Waife She married the writer and journalist Benjamin Waife (known by his pen name Ben-Zion Goldberg) in 1917 and had two sons, Sholom and Mitchell. In 1968, Waife published a biography of her father titled "My Father, Sholem Aleichem", the first complete biography of the famous writer. She was known for holding meetings at her New York residence on the anniversary of Aleichem's death to read his works. Waife died in 1985 and was survived by her sons. Marie Waife Marie Waife ("née" Marusi Solomonovna Rabinovich; October 29, 1892 – November 30, 1985) was an American writer best known for writing