Jove Books, formerly Pyramid Books, is a paperback publishing company, founded in 1949 by Almat Magazine Publishers (Alfred R. Plaine and Matthew Huttner). The company was sold to the Walter Reade Organization in the late 1960s. It was acquired in 1974 by Harcourt Brace (which became Harcourt Brace Jovanovich) which renamed it to Jove in 1977 and continued the line as an imprint. In 1979, they sold it to The Putnam Berkley Group, which is now part of the Penguin Group.

Phil Hirsch was vice president of Pyramid Books from 1955-1975 and had his name as author or editor on many of Pyramid's books.

Jove Francisco is a broadcast journalist from Philippines.

Mr. Francisco's name and blog was mentioned (by then Rep. Gilbert Remulla) during the hearings at the lower house on the Hello Garci controversy, specifically about the CD burning of the two discs that Press Secretary Ignacio Bunye presented during a press briefing. Bunye denied he allowed reporters to get copies of the discs.

Karl Stig-Erland "Stieg" Larsson ( /stiːɡ ˈlɑrsən/; Swedish pronunciation: [ˈkaɭ ˈstiːɡ ˈæɭand ˈlaʂɔn]; 15 August 1954 – 9 November 2004) was a Swedish journalist and writer. He is best known for writing the "Millennium series" of crime novels, which were published posthumously. Larsson lived and worked much of his life in Stockholm, in the field of journalism and as an independent researcher of right-wing extremism.

He was the second best-selling author in the world for 2008, behind Khaled Hosseini. By December 2011, his "Millennium series" had sold 65 million copies; its last part, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest, became the most sold book in the United States in 2010 according to Publishers Weekly.

Stieg Larsson was born in 1954 in Skelleftehamn near the northern Swedish city of Skellefteå, where at that time his father and maternal grandfather worked in the Rönnskärsverken smelting plant. After his father had to leave his job there, due to suffering from arsenic poisoning, the family moved to Stockholm but, because of their cramped living conditions in Stockholm, chose to let their one-year-old son remain behind with his grandparents. He lived with his grandparents until the age of nine near the village of Bjursele in Norsjö Municipality, Västerbotten County.