Who Wrote ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas? A Literary Debate

by Jennifer Ciotta
Immersed in the Christmas season and living in New York, I've engaged in the typical Big Apple holiday tasks such as viewing the windows at Macy's, gazing at the luminous Rockefeller Center tree and ice skating in the park. As we are all travelers each holiday season, whether to Bethlehem, PA to bask in the spiritual lights or far away to Lapland to feed the reindeer and explore Santa's workshop in Rovaniemi, Finland, we know that "A Visit from St. Nicholas" a.k.a. "'Twas the Night Before Christmas" remains a poem read to little ones every Christmas Eve all over the United S...