The Man Who Left Too Soon

The Biography of Stieg Larsson

Barry Forshaw

• Publisher: John Blake
• Year: 2011
• Topic: Literature
• eBook ISBN:
  9781843584575
• Subtopic: Literary Biographies
• Index: Literature

In the Man Who Left Too Soon, top crime fiction journalist Barry Forshaw gives us a fascinating insight into the life and works of this difficult, brilliant and multifaceted man. His best-selling books are violent, terrifying, brilliantly written and have sold millions of copies around the world, but Stieg Larsson was not there to witness any of their international success. That his fame is entirely posthumous demonstrates the dizzying speed with which his star has risen. However, when one looks a little deeper at the man behind these phenomenal novels, it becomes clear that Larsson's life would have been remembered as extraordinary even if his Millennium Trilogy had never been published. Larsson was a workacholic: a keen politcal activist, photographer, graphic desinger, a respected journalist and editor of numerous science fiction magazines...and at night, to relax after work, he wrote thrillers. As the world now knows, he had completed his third book, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, by the time of his death at just 50 years of age.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Acknowledgements
• Contents
• Introduction
• Chapter 1 Taken Too Soon
• Chapter 2 The Relatives
• Chapter 3 Death And Disputes
• Chapter 4 Publishing Larsson
• Chapter 5 What I Want To Say
• Chapter 6 Stieg Larsson Today: Developments and Discoveries
• Chapter 7 The Books: The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
• Chapter 8 The Books: The Girl Who Played With Fire
• Chapter 9 The Books: The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets’ Nest
• Chapter 10 The Films
• Chapter 11 The Millennium Tour: In Larsson’S Footsteps
• Appendix A – Stieg’s Rivals: Scandinavian Crime Fiction
• Appendix B – Writers on Stieg Larsson
• Plates
• Copyright