Bill Cheng Biography Bill Cheng is the author of the novel Southern Cross the Dog (Ecco, 2013). See Work FICTION / Summer 2025 Missing History By Bill Cheng , Illustrations by Ricardo Diseño Melon Floyd was born out in the Salts, 1881, in the border country between Winnemucca and Susanville—before they recorded Black voices on acetate, before his knife-throwing contest with Charlie Long, before “Laughing Man Blues.” His father...
