Finding Iris Chang
Subtitle: friendship, ambition, and the loss of an extraordinary mind
By: Paula Kamen
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: [Cambridge, Mass.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 281
ISBN-13: 9780306814662
Subjects: Mental health; Women authors; American Authors; American Women authors; Biography; American authors
Description: A biography of Iris Chang (1968-2004) by a long-time friend and confidante examines the life of the controversial author of "The Rape of Nanking" (first published in 1997), her decline into mental illness and paranoia, and her mysterious suicide at the age of thirty-six.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. The questions; title: chapter 1. What did they say happened to Iris?; title: chapter 2. What did she symbolize?; title: chapter 3. Were there early signs?; title: chapter 4. Why in the world did she run for homecoming court?; title: chapter 5. Who inspired her?; title: chapter 6. What did she tell me, as a primary source?; title: chapter 7. What did her friends observe in those last years?; title: chapter 8. What happened in California?; title: chapter 9. What were her demons?; title: chapter 10. Just because you're paranoid, does that mean they still aren't out to get you?; title: Afterword. Who were the villains?; title: Acknowledgments.