Finding Iris Chang is due on Oct 22

Finding Iris ChangPaula Kamen's bio of writer Iris Chang is due in the bookstores on October 22. Iris Chang committed suicide in November 2004 after a long battle with depression.

Iris Chang's best known book was The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II. The book tells the story of the infamous 1937-1938 Nanking massacre which took place during the Sino-Japanese War.

 

Paula describes the book as also being a memoir and investigation as the two women were friends going back to their college days.

Paula will be giving readings and talks about the book across the country starting on October 21.

  • Sunday, October 21, 7:30 PM
    Powell's
    1005 West Burnside, Portland, OR

  • Monday, October 22, 7:00 PM
    Beacon Hill Branch of the Seattle Public Library (Elliott Bay Bookstore event)
    2821 Beacon Ave. S., Seattle, WA

  • Monday, October 29, 5:30 PM
    Woman Warrior Festival
    Conaway Center, Columbia College Chicago
    1104 S. Wabash, 1st Floor
    website info
    $5

  • Tuesday, October 30: Milt Rosenberg show, 9-11 PM, WGN radio Chicago

  • Thursday, November 1, 4 PM
    Tufts University Medical School
    The Sackler Building - Auditorium B
    145 Harrison Avenue
    Boston
    (Lecture on last book, All in My Head, on women and chronic pain)

  • Friday, November 2, 3:00 PM
    Harvard Bookstore
    1256 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA, 02138

  • Tuesday, November 6, 7:30 PM
    Barbara's Bookstore at UIC
    1218 South Halsted Street, Chicago, IL

  • Wednesday, November 7, 7:00 PM
    57th Street Books
    1301 East 57th Street, Chicago, IL


  • Thursday, November 8, 7:30 PMW
    Women and Children First
    5233 N. Clark Street, Chicago, IL


  • Monday, November 12, 7:00 PM
    (in conversation with Beth Merrick, editor of This isn't Chick Lit)
    McNally Robinson Booksellers
    52 Prince St., New York, NY, 10012

  • Tuesday, November 13, 7 PM
    Museum of the Chinese in the Americas
    half-hour talk with 15-minute Q & A.
    70 Mulberry Street, 2nd floor
    New York, NY 10013
    212-619-4785

  • Friday, November 16, 6:00 PM
    A Room Of One's Own
    307 West Johnson, Madison, WI


  • Monday, November 19, 7:00 PM
    Harry W. Schwartz Bookshop
    4093 North Oakland Avenue, Milwaukee, WI, 53211


  • Wednesday, November 28, 7:00 PM
    Cody's Bookstore
    1730 Fourth Street, Berkeley, CA 94710


  • Thursday, November 29, 7:30 PM
    Kepler's Bookstore
    1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park, CA, 94025

  • Friday, November 30, 7:00 PM
    Book Passage
    51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera, CA, 94925


  • Tuesday, December 11, 7:30 PM
    Tattered Cover Book Store
    2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, CO, 80206

  • Thursday, January 17, 2008, 6:00 PM
    DePaul Barnes & Noble
    1 E Jackson BoulevardChicago
    312.362.8795
    website info
    sponsored by Asian American Bar Association of Chicago will focus on issue of Asians and mental illness