By all accounts, Stieg Larsson was a very private person, so there are few clues to what inspired his writing. This week, the UK paper, The Daily Mail published a piece about him with an attention-grabbing headline, “How a brutal rape and a lifelong burden of guilt fuelled Girl with the Dragon Tattoo writer Stieg Larsson” (it’s also on the Huffington Post today). The story is by Kurdo Baski, who has also written a bio of Larsson, due out this fall, from MacLehose Press, a division of the British publisher Quercus, also Larsson’s UK publisher.

UPDATE: Thanks to a comment from a reader, we’ve learned that this book will be published in the US as Stieg Larsson: Our Days in Stockholm, Pegasus (December 6, 2010) 978-1605981741; $25.

Stieg Larsson, My Friend Kurdo Baksi Retail Price: $25.00 Hardcover: 240 pages Publisher: MacLehose/Quercus – (2010-9-30) ISBN / EAN: 0857050214 / 9780857050212

In addition, Knopf announced that it is releasing a new boxed set of the Millennium trilogy, which will also include a volume called On Stieg Larsson, with essays about the author as well as  emails between him and his publisher, Eva Gedin. Priced at $99, it will be on sale the day after Thanksgiving.

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