Arthur Golden

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January 01, 1956 in Chattanooga, Tennessee, The United States

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Literature & Fiction, Historical Fiction

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Arthur Golden was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and was educated at Harvard College, where he received a degree in art history, specializing in Japanese art. In 1980 he earned an M.A. in Japanese history from Columbia University, where he also learned Mandarin Chinese. Following a summer in Beijing University, he worked in Tokyo, and, after returning to the United States, earned an M.A. in English from Boston University. He resides in Brookline, Massachusetts, with his wife and two children.

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Average rating: 3.97 · 544,391 ratings · 15,557 reviews · 5 distinct works

	Memoirs of a Geisha 3.97 avg rating — 544,220 ratings — published 1997 — 126 editions	My rating:
	Memorias de una Geisha 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2007	My rating:
	Memoirs of a Geisha: A Portrait of the Film by Peggy Mulloy (Photographer), David James, Rob Marshall (Introduction) 3.50 avg rating — 38 ratings — published 2005	My rating:
	Increase Your Score in 3 Minutes a Day: SAT Essay by Randall McCutcheon, James Schaffer, Arthur Golden (Foreword by) 1.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2004	My rating:
	Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems (Volumes 1-3) by Sculley Bradley, Arthur Golden, Harold W. Blodgett 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1980	My rating:

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“At the temple there is a poem called "Loss" carved into the stone. It has three words, but the poet has scratched them out. You cannot read loss, only feel it.”
― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

tags: death , loss

309 people liked it

“Adversity is like a strong wind. I don't mean just that it holds us back from places we might otherwise go. It also tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that afterward we see ourselves as we really are, and not merely as we might like to be.”
― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

tags: adversity

222 people liked it

“If you aren't the woman I think you are, then this isn't the world I thought it was.”
― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

tags: geisha , love , memoirs , woman

216 people liked it

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Please vote for your pick for the January book club. Voting ends December 30, 2009

The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory

12 votes, 22.6%

Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks

11 votes, 20.8%

Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden

9 votes, 17.0%

The Clan of the Cave Bear (Earth' Children #1)

The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. Auel

5 votes, 9.4%

by Fingersmith Sarah Waters

5 votes, 9.4%

Jerusalem by Cecelia Holland

4 votes, 7.5%

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

4 votes, 7.5%

Katherine by Anya Seton

3 votes, 5.7%

53 total votes

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