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 reindeer.
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
A Visit from St. Nicholas
"A Visit from St. Nicholas", routinely referred to as "The Night Before Christmas" and "'Twas the Night Before Christmas" from its first line, is a poem first published anonymously under the title Account of a Visit from St. Nicholas in 1823 and later attributed to Clement Clarke Moore, who claimed authorship in 1837.
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
