Author 'really cared' for those she wrote about
Iris Chang listened to stories of horror and suffering, absorbed them, and turned them into books. In the end, she may have cared too much.
The Uni High and University of Illinois graduate, author of the internationally bestselling "The Rape of Nanking," committed suicide Tuesday morning on a rural road in northern California. She was found with a gunshot wound to the head.
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