Willa Cather: A Literary Life.

Look homeward, Harry: Literary influence on the development of the Thematic Apperception Test.

“…842-843) Cather (1915/1943) later wrote a semiautobiographical novel with the same title in which the painting plays a n important symbolic role in awakening the protagonist's sensitivity to beauty. A reproduction of the painting (in partial silhouette) even appeared on the novel's first edition dust jacket (Rosowski, 1987;Woodress, 1987). As stated previously, Wolfe was quite familiar with Cather's work and specifically mentioned The Song of the Lurk in one of his notebooks; in another place, Wolfe ranked Cather as the third best woman writer (Kennedy & Reeves, 1970).…”