Thread of the Silkworm
暫譯: 蠶絲之線

錢學森的權威傳記，他是美國太空時代的先驅，曾被神秘地指控為共產主義者，隨後被驅逐，並成為中國導彈計畫的奠基人，這讓美國持續感到懊惱。

Iris Chang lived and worked in California. She was a journalism graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana and worked briefly as a reporter in Chicago before winning a graduate fellowship to the writing seminars program at The Johns Hopkins University. Her first book, Thread of the Silkworm (the story of Tsien Hsue-shen, father of the People's Republic of China's missile program) received world-wide critical acclaim. She is the recipient of the John T. and Catherine D. MacArthur Foundation's Program on Peace and International Cooperation award, as well as major grants from the National Science Foundation, the Pacific Cultural Foundation, and the Harry Truman Library. She passed away in 2004.

張純如在加利福尼亞州生活和工作。她是伊利諾伊大學厄本那分校的新聞學畢業生，曾在芝加哥短暫擔任記者，之後獲得約翰霍普金斯大學寫作研討會計畫的研究生獎學金。她的第一本書，蠶絲之線（講述中華人民共和國導彈計畫之父錢學森的故事），獲得了全球的好評。她是約翰·T·麥克阿瑟基金會和平與國際合作計畫獎的得主，並獲得國家科學基金會、太平洋文化基金會和哈里·杜魯門圖書館的主要資助。她於2004年去世。