Eleanor Abbott

Eleanor Hallowell Abbott (September 22, 1872 in Cambridge, Massachusetts - 1958 in Portsmouth, New Hampshire) was a game designer, teacher, and secretary from Wilton, New Hampshire, who in the 1940s invented the popular game Candy Land. As a suffer from polio she designed the game while in a hospital in San Diego as a way for children to pass the time while recuperating.

In 1936, she wrote an autobiography entitled Being Little in Cambridge When Everyone Else Was Big.

Note: This is a different person than Elenore Plaisted Abbott (1875 - 1935), a popular American book and magazine artist who was taught by Howard Pyle.