Time magazine has an interesting article this week about the fight over Stieg Larsson's estate. It turns out his longtime partner, Eva Gabrielsson, has inherited nothing from him because they were never married. (Due to Larsson's work reporting on fascism in Sweden, and a Swedish requirement that married couples publish their address, marriage could have been unsafe for the pair.)
Now Gabrielsson is fighting Larsson's father and younger brother for Larsson's estate. With 40 million books sold worldwide, it's a hefty figure. "The irony here, or one of the ironies, is that embattled, disenfranchised women are Larsson's fictional specialty," write Lev Grossman and Carla Power in Time.
Here's a link to the article (works for now). The text is also available from the library's MasterFile Premiere database, which you can access here with your library card.
