"There Are Things I Want You to Know" About Stieg Larsson and Me

Eva Gabrielsson and Stieg Larsson. In "There Are Things I Want You to Know" About Stieg Larsson and Me, Gabrielsson accepts the daunting challenge of telling their story, steeped in love and sharpened in the struggle for justice and human rights. She chooses to tell it in short, spare, lyrical chapters, like snapshots, regaling Larsson's readers with how he wrote, why he wrote, who the sources are were for Lisbeth and his other characters-graciously answering Stieg Larsson's readers' most pressing questions-and at the same time telling us the things we didn't know we wanted to know-about love and loss, death, betrayal, and the mistreatment of women.

Eva Gabrielsson is a working architect, author, and political activist. In addition to having worked with Stieg Larsson on his writing projects, she is the coauthor of a monograph on the subject of cohabitation in Sweden, a study on sustainable housing, and a forthcoming book on the Swedish urban planner Per Olof Hallman. She has also translated into Swedish Philip K. Dick's The Man in the High Castle. As an activist, she works to stop violence against women. Eva Gabrielsson and Stieg Larsson met in 1972, when they were both eighteen, and lived and wrote together from 1974 until his death in 2004. Their struggle together for social justice was the basis for the books in Larsson's Millennium Trilogy. "There Are Things I Want You to Know" about Stieg Larsson and Me has been published in nineteen languages in twenty-one countries.