In Literature
In Magic Words, a 2012 novel by Gerald Kolpan (Pegasus Books), Chung is featured as young Billy Robinson, apprentice to the great magician, Alexander Herrmann, who is one of the two main characters in the book (the other is Alexander's cousin, Julius Meyer, Indian interpreter).In the book, Billy is shown actually helping Alexander to prepare the special sugar musket balls for the Bullet Catch. Although the book is fiction, it is true that Robinson was one of Herrmann's assistants. Kolpan is also the author of 2009's Etta, a novel about Etta Place, lover of the Sundance Kid.
In Ray Bradbury's novel Dandelion Wine, the story of his death told by an eyewitness who calls him "Ching Ling Soo" and remembers him as having been shot in the face at Boston's Variety Theater in 1910.
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