On this day in literature
December 23
In literary history
- 1823An anonymous poem called 'A Visit from St. Nicholas' appeared in the Troy Sentinel, delivered to the editor by a friend of the author. Clement Clarke Moore later claimed it; a rival scholar credits Henry Livingston Jr. The reindeer have not settled it.
Writers born on December 23
- John Jay (1745),
- Juan Ramón Jiménez (1881),
- Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (1896),
- Donna Tartt (1963)