Nien Cheng died on Nov. 2 and I didn’t know it, because the Hutch or trib Papers don’t cover stories on dead authors. I had sent her a drawing and my christmas letter. I get it back yesterday from a Lawyer handing her estate and informed me of the fact. My heart sank. I didn’t really know the lady, but I’d written a few times and she’d written back. It was such sad news. She was the author of “Life and Death in Shanghai