Finding Iris Chang: Friendship, Ambition, and the Loss of an Extraordinary Mind  By Paula Kamen is a biography of the late Iris Chang by a Paula Kamen who was a long-time friend and confidante.Paula draws on her own experiences and Chang's letters, journals, and archival material to examine the life of the  author of the Rape of Nanking, her decline into mental illness and paranoia, and her mysterious suicide at the age of thirty-six.