Artists Who Only Became Legendary After They Died

Stieg Larsson

This famous “Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” author died suddenly of a heart attack in 2004. He was only 50-years-old. He had planned to write 10 books in the series, but had completed only three. None were published prior to his death. After their publication, he posthumously became the second best-selling fiction author of 2008.