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Bill Denbrough

Bill Denbrough is recorded in 2 distinct storys.

Eddie remembers his devotion to Bill, leader of the Losers. This record is scoped to its established narrative identity; equal-name matches are not automatically merged. It explicitly identifies William Denbrough as Stuttering Bill and a novelist; Bag of Bones refers to his novels. The Tower robot sharing the nickname is a separate entity.

Also recorded as Big Bill, Stuttering Bill, William Denbrough.

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Bag of Bones

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Read the passage Spoilers · Story context

Johanna was deep in her ratty old easy chair, reading a book (not Maugham that night but William Denbrough, one of her contemporary favorites). "Ooo," she said, looking up and marking her place. "Cham pagne, what's the occasion?" As if, you understand, she didn't know. "I'm done," I said.

It explicitly identifies William Denbrough as Stuttering Bill and a horror novelist; Bag of Bones refers to that named novelist’s books.

Bag of Bones ↗By Stephen King

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Read the passage Spoilers · Story context

He was six. His brother, William, known to most of the kids at Derry Elementary School (and even to the teachers, who would never have used the nickname to his face) as Stuttering Bill, was at home, hacking out the last of a nasty case of influenza.

It identifies Bill Denbrough as Stuttering Bill; Tower VII explicitly identifies its Stuttering Bill as a robot. They are different entities.

It ↗By Stephen King
Read the passage Spoilers · Story context

About three months before that terrible night, Stanley had discovered that a childhood friend of his had turned out to be a writer—not a real writer, Patricia told her mother, but a novelist. The name on the books was William Denbrough, but Stanley had sometimes called him Stuttering Bill.

It explicitly identifies William Denbrough as Stuttering Bill and a horror novelist; Bag of Bones refers to that named novelist’s books.

It ↗By Stephen King