Iris Chang(1968-2004)
- Writer
She grew up in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, where her father, a
physicist, and her mother, a microbiologist, taught at the University
of Illinois. Ms. Chang received a bachelor's degree in journalism from
Illinois in 1989. After working briefly as a reporter for The
Associated Press and The Chicago Tribune, she earned a master's degree
from the writing program of Johns Hopkins University in 1991.