Charles Fenno Hoffman
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Charles Fenno Hoffman (February 7, 1806 – June 7, 1884) was an American author and poet.
He was born in New York City and attended New York University and Columbia College. The son of a lawyer preparing for the same profession, he deserted it early on for literature. He wrote a successful novel, Greyslaer, and much verse, some of which was said to have displayed more lyrical power than any which had preceded it in America. The editor of The New-York Book of Poetry, which first attributed A Visit From St. Nicholas to Clement Clarke Moore, he spent the last 35 years of his life in an insane asylum.
This article incorporates public domain text from: Cousin, John William (1910). A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature. London, J.M. Dent & sons; New York, E.P. Dutton.
