Arthur Golden






Arthur Golden

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born
January 01, 1956

gender
male

place of birth
Chattanooga, Tennessee, The United States

genre
Literature & Fiction, Historical Fiction


about this author

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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Memoirs of a Geisha Memoirs of a Geisha
by Arthur Golden
avg rating 3.94 — 156,786 ratings — published 1997
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Memoirs of a Geisha Memoirs of a Geisha
by Arthur Golden
avg rating 3.88 — 8 ratings — published 1999
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Oriental Collection: Empire of... Oriental Collection: Empire of the Sun/Memoirs of a Geisha/Seven Years in Tibet
by J.G. Ballard, Arthur Golden, Heinrich Harrer, Samuel West (Reader), Noriko Aida (Reader), Tim Pigott-Smith (Reader)
avg rating 4.00 — 3 ratings — published 2001
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Walt Whitman Walt Whitman
by Arthur Golden
avg rating 4.50 — 2 ratings — published 1973
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さゆり〈上〉 さゆり〈上〉
by アーサー ゴールデン, Arthur Golden (原著), 小川 高義 (翻訳)
avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published 2004
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Leaves of Grass: A Textual Var... Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems (Volumes 1-3)
by Sculley Bradley, Arthur Golden, Harold W. Blodgett
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 1980
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"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. (Memoirs of a Geisha 348)"
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"If you aren't the woman I think you are, then this isn't the world I thought it was."
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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."
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