<P> He was the second best - selling author in the world for 2008, behind Khaled Hosseini . The third novel in the Millennium trilogy, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest, became the most sold book in the United States in 2010, according to Publishers Weekly . By March 2015, his series had sold 80 million copies worldwide . </P> <P> Stieg Larsson was born on 15 August 1954, as Karl Stig - Erland Larsson, in Umeå, Västerbottens län, Sweden, where his father and maternal grandfather worked in the Rönnskärsverken smelting plant . Suffering from arsenic poisoning, his father resigned from his job, and the family subsequently moved to Stockholm . But because of their cramped living conditions, they chose to let one - year - old Larsson remain behind . So until the age of nine, Larsson lived with his grandparents in a small wooden house in the countryside, near the village of Bjursele in Norsjö Municipality, Västerbotten County . He attended the village school and used cross-country skis to get to and from school during the long, snowy winters in northern Sweden . He loved the experience of living there . </P> <P> In the book "There Are Things I Want You to Know" About Stieg Larsson and Me, Eva Gabrielsson describes this as Larsson's motivation for setting part of his first novel The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo in northern Sweden, which Gabrielsson calls "godforsaken places at the back of beyond ." </P> <P> Larsson was not as fond of the urban environment in the city of Umeå, where he moved to live with his parents after his grandfather, Severin Boström, died of a heart attack at age 50 . In 1974, Larsson was drafted into the Swedish Army, under the conscription law, and spent 16 months in compulsory military service, training as a mortarman in an infantry unit in Kalmar . </P>

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