Iris Chang, author of “The Rape of Nanking,” committed suicide earlier this week. She was found in her car on a rural road south of Los Gatos, CA. Her book had opened to the world the atrocities of the Japanese invasion of Nanjing, China in 1937. In Chang’s NY Times obituary her husband revealed that her suicide note was “painstakingly written, edited and rewritten.” She was 36.