Stieg Larsson

Stieg Larsson was a Swedish writer, journalist and far-left activist who lived and worked for much of his life in Stockholm. He is best known for the Millennium series of crime novels, beginning with The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, the first book of a trilogy published after his sudden death from a heart attack in 2004. The series had sold 80 million copies worldwide by March 2015. Alongside his fiction, he wrote on socialist politics and researched right-wing extremism as an independent investigator.