Clement Clarke Moore taught Greek and Oriental literature at the General Theological Seminary in New York City. The story goes that after he wrote the poem for his children—he eventually had nine—a relative copied it down and gave it to a friend in Troy, New York, who then sent it to the Troy Sentinel. It was published without Moore being ... Read morecredited as the author. Moore’s name didn’t appear as the poem’s author until 1837, when the work was printed along with some of his other pieces in a book titled The New York Book of Poetry. He died on July 10, 1863. Every December, a wreath is laid on his grave at Trinity Church Cemetery in New York City to commemorate his famous poem. Show Less