Father of Quentin MacLachan Compson

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59
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Father of Quentin MacLachan Compson
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Compson, Father of Quentin MacLachan
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No
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In the "Appendix" to The Sound and the Fury that Faulkner published in 1946, the family line begins with this man: a printer in Glasgow, Scotland, who is the father of Quentin MacLachan Compson. Apparently he died when his son was still a child (326).