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Arthur Golden
American author known for writing 'Memoirs of a Geisha'
Arthur Sulzberger Golden (born December 6, 1956) is an American writer. He is the author of the bestselling novel Memoirs of a Geisha (1997).
Early life
Golden was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, the son of Ruth (née Sulzberger) and Ben Hale Golden.[1][2] His mother was Jewish. His father was not.[1] Through his mother he is a member of the Ochs-Sulzberger family.[1] His mother was a daughter of long-time New York Times publisher Arthur Hays Sulzberger and granddaughter of New York Times owner and publisher Adolph Ochs.[3] His parents divorced when he was eight years old. His father died five years after. He was raised in Lookout Mountain, Georgia and attended Lookout Mountain Elementary School in Lookout Mountain, Tennessee.
Golden spent his middle and high school years at the Baylor School (then a boys-only school for day and boarding students) in Chattanooga, graduating in 1974 before attending Harvard University and receiving a degree
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Golden, Arthur 1956-
PERSONAL: Born 1956, in Chattanooga, TN; married Trudy Legge, 1982; children: two. Education: Harvard College, B.A. (art history); Columbia University, M.A. (Japanese history), 1980; Boston University, M.A. (English), 1988. Hobbies and other interests: Classical guitar.
ADDRESSES: Home—P.O. Box 419, Brookline, MA 02446.
CAREER: Writer. Worked for an English-language magazine in Tokyo, 1980-82.
WRITINGS:
Memoirs of a Geisha, Knopf (New York, NY), 1997.
ADAPTATIONS: Memoirs of a Geisha was recorded as an audiobook, Random House (New York, NY), 1997. Memoirs of a Geisha has been translated into thirty-three languages, and rights were sold for an American film adaptation in 1997 to Red Wagon Productions.
WORK IN PROGRESS: A historical novel set in the United States.
SIDELIGHTS: Arthur Golden made a splash when he came on the literary scene in 1997 with the publication of his novel Memoirs of a Geisha, the fictional autobiography of a Japanese geisha during the 1920s and 1930s. A phenomenal best seller, this novel sold more than four
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