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Snopes family, recurring characters in the Yoknapatawpha novels and stories of William Faulkner, notably The Hamlet (1940), The Town (1957), and The Mansion (1959). Snopes family members also appear in Sartoris (1929), As I Lay Dying (1930), and The Unvanquished (1938).

Faulkner contrasted the verminlike rapacity of most of the Snopes family with the failing old order of the Sartoris clan. Through treachery and corruption, Flem Snopes gathers power in Frenchman’s Bend, Miss. His cousins are emblems of depravity, including murderous Mink, pedophile Wesley, bigamist I.O., mentally disabled Ike, who lusts after a cow, and Launcelot (“Lump”), who sells tickets to view Ike’s perverted scenes. The next generation includes a pornographer, a venal politician, a thief, and the uniquely honest Wallstreet Panic Snopes.

This article was most recently revised and updated by Kathleen Kuiper.