A clatter of claims to a classic
Maine publisher champions rival author of old favorite
Clement Clarke Moore is widely recognized as the author of “The Night Before Christmas,’’ the classic holiday poem first published, anonymously, in 1823. But was he? A competing claim has been made for Henry Livingston Jr. by his descendants, bolstered by a newly published edition of the poem that bears Livingston’s name on the title page.
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