Stieg Larsson

Swedish · b. 1954

Stieg Larsson spent his career as a Swedish investigative journalist mapping neo-Nazi networks under real death threats, writing the Millennium trilogy at night as a private project. He died of a heart attack at 50, before the first book appeared — never knowing Lisbeth Salander would sell 100 million copies and drag Scandinavian noir onto the world's nightstands.