About Bill Cheng
Born 1983. Bill Cheng is an American writer.
Bill Cheng (born 1983) is a Chinese-American writer. He is best known for his novel Southern Cross The Dog. It follows the story of a boy who survives the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and then spends several decades as a refugee, an abandoned orphan and then an itinerant laborer. Cheng is known for his sardonic sense of humor and holds an MFA in writing at Hunter College.
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American writer
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Bill Cheng was born in 1983 in Queens.
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