Who Wrote the Night Before Christmas ?

Published anonymously in 1823, 'The Night Before Christmas' has long been attributed to Clement Clarke Moore, who included it in his 1844 Poems.

However, Henry Livingston's descendants assert he composed it earlier.

This book evaluates the arguments with modern author-attribution techniques, including statistical analysis of phonemes on both authors' verse, concluding that Livingston is the true author and advancing computational stylistics in attribution studies.