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Clement Clarke Moore

American professor, credited with “A Visit from St. Nicholas”, 1779–1863. 1 explained quote.

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“'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.”
Clement Clarke Moore · 1823
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“'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.”
Clement Clarke Moore · “A Visit from St. Nicholas,” first published anonymously in the Troy Sentinel · 1823 · Poet

The opening of the poem that shaped the modern American Santa Claus: a jolly, round St. Nicholas who arrives on Christmas Eve in a sleigh pulled by eight reindeer and comes down the chimney.

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About Clement Clarke Moore

Clement Clarke Moore taught Oriental and Greek literature at the General Theological Seminary in New York. He claimed authorship of “A Visit from St. Nicholas” years after it was first printed anonymously, a claim that the family of the poet Henry Livingston Jr. has disputed since the 1800s.