The characters / Recurring character
Bill Denbrough
Bill Denbrough is recorded in 2 distinct stories.
Reveal identity notes · spoilers
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. Writer and member of the childhood group.
Also recorded as Big Bill, Billy Denbrough, Stuttering Bill, William Denbrough.
Stories and supporting passages
Bag of Bones
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.
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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.
Read the passage Spoilers · Story context
In Derry such forgetting of tragedy and disaster was almost an art, as Bill Denbrough would come to discover in the course of time. George paused just beyond the sawhorses at the edge of a deep ravine that had been cut through the tar surface of Witcham Street.
Writer and member of the childhood group.