"A Visit from St. Nicholas" is a poem, first published anonymously under the title "Account of a Visit from St. Nicholas", in 1823. Authorship has been attributed to Clement Clarke Moore, who claimed
The cover of a series of illustrations for the "Night Before Christmas", published as part of the Public Works Administration project in 1934 by Helmuth F. Thoms
Some contend that Henry Livingston Jr., not Moore, was the poem's author.
Cover of a 1912 edition of the poem, illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith
The Librarian of Congress, James Hadley Billington, reads the poem to children in December 2010
Clement Clarke Moore was an American writer, scholar and real estate developer. He is best known as author of the Christmas poem "A Visit from St. Nicholas", which first named each of Santa Claus's re
A Visit from St. Nicholas
…first line) is a poem, first published anonymously under the title "Account of a Visit from St. Nicholas", in 1823. Authorship has been attributed to Clement Clarke Moore, who claimed authorship in 1837; but it has also been suggested that Henry Livingston Jr. wrote it. The poem has been called "arguably the best-known…
A rendering of the mansion house of the Chelsea estate by Moore's daughter, Mary C. Ogden, made for the first color edition of A Visit from St. Nicholas (1855)
Townhouses in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood, most of which was originally part of Moore's country estate
Clement Clarke Moore Park at 10th Avenue and 22nd Street in Manhattan, New York City