Woman Who Could Not Forget (63 page)

With Nanjing survivor Xia Shu-qin (second from left), who witnessed the killing and raping of her family members when she was nine years old.

Iris and Ying-Ying at a signing of her first book,
Thread of the Silkworm,
in Champaign, Illinois in 1995.

Iris at a photo exhibition of the Nanking Massacre. The photos in this exhibit would change her life. (Photo courtesy of
San
Jose Mercury News.
)

Iris in 1997, the same year
The Rape of Nanking
was published. (Photo by Jimmy Estimada.)

The cover of the November, 1997 issue of
Johns Hopkins
magazine. This article was the first intensive coverage of Iris’s
The Rape of Nanking
book.

Copies of
The Rape of Nanking
displayed in a bookstore.

Signing copies of
The Rape of Nanking
.

Iris and her parents with Uni High School Principal Shelley Roberts (right) and her former English teachers, Adele Suslick (left) and Charlene Tibbitts (seated) at the 1998 Max Berberman Award ceremony.

The cover of the September, 1998 issue of
Reader’s Digest
magazine.

Iris and
Washington Post
columnist George Will.

Iris and President Bill Clinton at the Renaissance Weekend New Year’s Eve Party, December 31, 1998.

Iris and Diana Zuckerman (left) with First Lady Hillary Clinton at the White House, 1999.