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by Paula Kamen

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Iris Chang's mysterious suicide in 2004, at age thirty-six, didn't seem to make any sense. She had more to live for than anyone, including fame, fortune, beauty, a husband, and child. Some even wondered if the controversial author of the Rape of Nanking had been murdered. Long-time friend Paula Kamen was among those left wondering what had gone so wrong. Seeking to reconcile the suicide with the image of Chang's "perfect" life, Kamen searched her own memory and scoured Chang's letters, diaries, and archival material to fill in the gaps of Chang's personal transformation-from awkward teen to homecoming princess in college, from "ex-shy person" to world-class speaker and international human rights pioneer-and later decline into mental illness and paranoia. A literary investigation of an important writer's journey, Finding Iris is a tribute to a lost heroine, a portrait of the real and vulnerable woman who inspired so many around the world.

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  • Title Finding Iris Chang: Friendship, Ambition, and the Loss of an Extraordinary Mind
  • Author Paula Kamen
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 281
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Da Capo Press, Philadelphia
  • Publication date November 2007
  • ISBN 9780306814662 / 0306814668
  • Weight 1.24 lbs (0.56 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.25 x 6.58 x 1.04 in (23.50 x 16.71 x 2.64 cm)
  • Category Biography / Autobiography
  • Library of Congress subjects Authors, American - 20th century, Women authors, American - 20th century
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

About the author

Paula Kamen is the author of All in My Head: An Epic Quest to Cure an Unrelenting, Totally Unreasonable, and Only Slightly Enlightening Headache. Her commentaries have appeared in the New York Times and the Washington Post, among other publications. She lives in Chicago.
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