From Films for the Humanities and Sciences, the Films on Demand streaming video collection includes titles concerning individual authors and literary history.
In depth biographical profiles of world authors with images and some primary sources.
Subject: Theatre Arts, Literature Literary criticisms, biographies of authors, reference resources, plus works of poetry, drama, and prose fiction from the sixth century to the present day.
Subject: Archaeology, Art, Architecture, History, Language, Linguistics, Health,
Music, Literature, Philosophy, Science, and Social Science. Full-text subject reference works in a single cross-searchable resource.
Interviews with important modern and contemporary authors
To search the library collection for books about an author's life, do a keyword search on the author's name and the word biography.
For example: Herman Melville biography