The Fight for "The Night": Resolving the Authorship Dispute over "The Night Before Christmas"

Who Wrote "The Night Before Christmas"?

In The Fight for "The Night": Resolving the Authorship Dispute Over "The Night Before Christmas," author Tom A. Jerman addresses a challenge first voiced by descendants of a Poughkeepsie farmer, Henry Livingston Jr., and later articulated by Vassar English professor Don Foster to the long-standing attribution of "The Night Before Christmas" to New York seminary professor Clement C. Moore.