Bon-Bon (short story) Aristophanes, Catullus, Hippocrates, Quintilian and François Marie Arouet (the real name of Voltaire). As Bon-Bon is offering his own soul, the Devil sneezes, referring to an earlier moment in the story when the Devil says that men dispel bad ideas by sneezing. An editorial in the "Philadelphia Saturday Courier" thanked Poe for submitting the stories. The writer, presumably the editor, Lambert A. Wilmer, added that "we have read these tales, every syllable, with the greatest pleasure, and for originality, richness of imagery and purity of the style, few American authors in our opinion have produced any thing superior". A reviewer
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