Iris Chang Writer

Iris Shun-Ru Chang (March 28, 1968 – November 9, 2004) was an American historian and journalist. She is best known for her best-selling 1997 account of the Nanking Massacre, The Rape of Nanking. She committed suicide on November 9, 2004. Chang is the subject of the 2007 biography, Finding Iris Chang, and the 2007 documentary film Iris Chang: The Rape of Nanking.

Personal facts

Birth date	March 28, 1968
Birth place	New Jersey , Princeton New Jersey , United States
Date of death	November 09, 2004
Place of death	California , Los Gatos California
Education	Johns Hopkins University University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign