This article is part of Overlooked, a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported in The Times.
In 1933, he copyrighted the game, Monopoly, as his own invention and began selling it in toy stores and department stores.
It also made Darrow a millionaire.
But credit for the idea behind it should not have been his.
Rather, it belonged to a woman from Illinois with a versatile résumé that included writing, acting, engineering and working as a stenographer: Lizzie Magie.
Persons:
Charles Darrow, Darrow, Lizzie Magie
Organizations:
Times
Locations:
Philadelphia, Illinois