No more Moore? Literary sleuth Don Foster argues that Clement Clarke Moore never wrote 'The Night before Christmas'.(Suburban Living)

Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL) | December 12, 2000| | Copyright

Byline: Lisa Friedman Miner Daily Herald Staff Writer

Professionally, the case seemed a "lose-lose" proposition.

Could Don Foster - a literary sleuth and Vasser College English professor - prove that Clement Clarke Moore never wrote the beloved "Account of a Visit from St. Nicholas," better known as "The Night Before Christmas?"

The request came from a woman who claimed to be a descendent of the poem's "real" author, a jolly fellow named Henry Livingston.

Pursuing the case involved few, if any, academic benefits for Foster. For one ...

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