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Authorship debate over The Night Before Christmas continues
In Author Unknown Don Foster argues Maj Henry Livingston Jr. authored Account of a Visit from St Nicholas, not Clement Clarke Moore. The claim hinges on diction, sources, and similarities to Livingston’s verse, while Moore supporters cite tradition and commemorations as evidence of the poem’s fame.
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University of California, Santa Barbara
William Shakespeare
Joe Klein
Livingston
Poughkeepsie
N.Y
Moore
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Fox
New York
Seth Kaller
Binzak
General Theological Seminary
Ward B. Ewing
Vassar College
Don Foster
Maj. Henry Livingston Jr
St. Nicholas
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Bronx
Church of the Intercession
New-York Historical Society
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Chant
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Donder
Blitzen
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