Literary Links: Travel through the works of One Read author Daniel Mason

Each month, the Columbia Public Library offers selections from its collection related to a current best-seller or hot topic. Public Services Librarian Seth Smith compiled this month’s selections.

Many great novelists and writers have also had other careers.

Isaac Asimov bridged the worlds of working physicist and science-fiction author. Lewis Carroll was a lecturer in mathematics at Oxford and the pen behind wondrous and bizarre stories such as “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” (Penguin, 2015) . Philip Larkin was directing the University of Hull library while writing “ The Whitsun Weddings” (Faber and Faber, 1967) and many of his other great works of poetry.

What could be more challenging than holding down a full-time job and producing great literary works? The very act of doing bo