NYTIMES (Sandra A. Miller and Margaret Muirhead) - Tracing the Sweet Origins of Candy Land and Its Creator
The writers of an Overlooked obituary about the game’s creator recount how they stumbled upon her and then proceeded to reconstruct her life.
NYTIMES (Sandra A. Miller and Margaret Muirhead) - Overlooked No More: Eleanor Abbott, the Creator of Candy Land
She invented the game nearly 80 years ago to distract children who were suffering in the hospital during a polio outbreak.