The enemy of comfort.(THE LAST WORD)(Iris Chang)(Obituary)

A WEEK AFTER THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS, IRIS Chang, the much-acclaimed author of The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II, was found dead in her car on a highway just south of Los Gatos, California. Before shooting herself, Chang left a carefully written suicide note at her home in San Jose and made sure that her body would be discovered by the police rather than by her husband or her 2-year-old son.

The newspaper stories that followed made a point of noting Chang's age--she was just 36--and explaining the success of the most important of her three books, ...

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