Stieg Larsson spent two years writing the Millennium trilogy, but didn't live to see it published. He died suddenly, aged 50, from a heart attack in November 2004. The first novel was published the following July, and has sold more than 40 million copies. The woman who was his partner for 32 years, Eva Gabrielsson, is not interested in "Millennium Stieg" but in the man who was "my life partner and my ally in everything". They met as teenagers at an anti-Vietnam War demonstration; Stieg was "a talker, curious about everything, generous, a very moral person". He was also "absolutely irresistible". But they never married. He was afraid it would place her in danger when his life was threatened by the extreme right, whose activities he had exposed. Larsson died without a will, and she had no legal claim on his estate. At one point she faced eviction from their apartment. She is understandably bitter, but her love for the man with whom she shared her life shines through, as does her commitment to the causes he fought for.