![]() Over the next two years, he completed three manuscripts for a Swedish publisher. In 2002, while vacationing with Eva Gabrielsson, his longtime live-in companion, Larsson began writing what would become the first book in the Millennium series. He went on to work as a graphic designer for a Swedish news agency, and later became an investigative journalist who focused on exposing right-wing extremist groups. Larsson eventually joined his parents and younger brother in Sweden’s capital city in the early 1960s. ![]() His parents soon relocated to Stockholm in search of better job opportunities, leaving their son to be raised by his maternal grandparents. Larsson was born on August 15, 1954, in the town of Skelleftehamm, in northern Sweden. Larsson, who never lived to see his books’ success, died without a will, setting off a protracted legal battle for the rights to his work. Known collectively as the Millennium trilogy, the novels feature the characters Mikael Blomkvist, a middle-aged journalist, and Lisbeth Salander, a young pierced and tattooed computer hacker with a troubled past. ![]() On November 9, 2004, Swedish writer Stieg Larsson dies suddenly of a heart attack at age 50, only months after turning in the manuscripts for three crime thrillers-“The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo,” “The Girl who Played with Fire” and “The Girl who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest”-which would later become international best-sellers. ![]()
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