Compson
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Compson is a fictional family created by American author William Faulkner for use in his novels and short stories. In the timeline of his writings, the Compsons were a once-prominent family in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, who began to fall upon hard times in the twentieth century.
The family name is referred to briefly in the opening chapter of Requiem for a Nun. Principally depicted in The Sound and the Fury and in its appendix, they also make appearances in Absalom, Absalom! and stories such as "That Evening Sun." Faulkner traced their genealogy from 1699 to 1945.
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