Iris Chang

Iris Chang recieved a journalism degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana. After working briefly as a reporter in Chicago, she won a graduate fellowship to the writing seminars program at The Johns Hopkins University. Her first book, Thread of the Silkworm, told the story of Tdien Hsue-shen, father of the People's Republic of China's missile program. Iris Chang was the recipient of the John T. and Catherine D. MacArthur Foundation's Program on Peace and International Cooperation award, as well as major grants from the National Science Foundation, the Pacific Cultural Foundation, and the Harry Truman Library. She lived in Sunnyvale, California.