macdonald p. jackson, emeritus professor of english at the university of auckland, new zealand and a fellow of the royal society of new zealand, has spent his entire academic career analyzing authorship attribution. in his 2016 book "who wrote "the night before christmas"?: analyzing the clement clarke moore vs. henry livingston question", he evaluates the opposing arguments as the first analyst to employ the author-attribution techniques of modern computational stylistics. jackson employs a range of tests to analyze the poetry of both men and introduces a new test, statistical analysis of phonemes; he concludes that livingston is the true author of the classic work. his conclusion: "every test, so far applied, associates 'the night before christmas' much more closely with livingston's verse than with moore's."