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To: Box-By-The-Riviera™ who wrote (297469)	11/10/2004 11:58:57 PM
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Bad news--IRIS CHANG found dead of gunshot wound in Los Gatos Author/journalist found dead of gunshot wound in Los Gatos IRIS CHANG BROUGHT 1930S ATROCITY TO WESTERN CONSCIOUSNESS By Chuck Carroll Mercury News Iris Chang, whose haunting childhood memories of oral stories about the rape and slaughter of hundreds of thousands of Chinese civilians at the hands of Japanese soldiers compelled her to write an acclaimed book about the atrocity, was found dead Tuesday from a self-inflicted gunshot. Chang apparently drove down a road south of Los Gatos and shot herself to death in her car. Santa Clara County Deputy Terrance Helm said a motorist driving Tuesday morning on Highway 17 south of The Cats restaurant in unincorporated Los Gatos and noticed a car a short distance down a private water district road. He pulled over to check on the vehicle and called 911 when he realized what had happened. Helm said investigators concluded Chang had shot herself with a single-shot to the head, and that there was ``other evidence'' to support that conclusion. The official cause of death has not been made. The 36-year-old San Jose resident's ``The Rape of Nanking'' was published by Basic Books in 1997, was a New York Times Notable Book, and was cited by Bookman Review Syndicate as one of the best books of that year. It is about the slaughter of Chinese civilians by the Japanese in the late 1930s -- an incident that received little notice in the English-speaking world at the time. The 36-year-old Chang was born in Princeton, N.J., and grew in Champaign-Urbana, Ill. After graduation from the University of Illinois in 1989, she worked for a time as a reporter for the Associated Press and the Chicago Tribune. She then earned a graduate degree in writing from Johns Hopkins University and began a career as a full-time author and lecturer. Her other major non-fiction works are ``The Thread of the Silkworm,'' and last year's ``The Chinese in America.'' mercurynews.com mercurynews.com