Looking for (brief) biographical information in regards to film & literature

If you are searching for articles that contain biographical information:

• For literature try the Literature Resource Center(log on with netID required)
• For popular culture & film try Pop Culture Universe.(log on with netID required)
• A useful public site to search is AllMovie .
  For the purposes of citation of a web document "if there is no author, begin the reference with the document title." Click here for the MLA handout.
• You can also try searching IMDB, but biographical entries are not always cited, so be careful in using this source. This site is more useful for performance history than biographical information.

If you are searching for books that contain biographical information:

• You can search our catalog for books. Type the name of the person you are looking for information on as one of your search terms, and add biography or autobiography as another search term

• If you have time for Interlibrary Loan you can also use these search terms in Google Books.

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If you have any questions, please contact me or comment on this post.

Octavia Butler's papers! (and other authors, in CA.)

This library sounds like it has a really impressive collection of authors papers and manuscripts! They just got Octavia Butler's which should be accessible in about a year. Octavia Butler is one of my favorite science fiction authors, but I can only read so much of her at a time, because it is so well written and sometimes depressing (sort of how I view Battlestar Galactica, though her works are much more internally consistent. Also, I finish books by Butler. I am stuck on season 4.5 of BSG, and apparently I am never, ever going to finish.)

The Huntington Library is in California, so that could be an issue and you have to submit an application but their collections look amazing. They have papers from Jack London, Christopher Isherwood, W.H. Auden, Langston Hughes, and Charles Bukowski. If you can't make it out there, it looks like you can request reproductions here.