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Byline: Edited by Katie Stirling

WHO created Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer? - A. Wilkinson, Edinburgh.

#ROBERT L. MAY, a copywriter for Chicago-based department store Montgomery Ward. In 1939 he was asked to come up with the story for a leaflet given away to kids at Christmas and came up with the reindeer twist on the familiar Ugly Duckling story. The story was a huge success with six million Rudolph booklets being distributed by the end of World War Two. But as May had created Rudolph while working for ...

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