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Arthur Golden

Born

in Chattanooga, Tennessee, The United States

December 06, 1956

Genre

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: 4.12 · 1,702,349 ratings · 29,821 reviews · 8 distinct works • Similar authors

	Memoirs of a Geisha 4.12 avg rating — 1,699,732 ratings — published 1997 — 272 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Memoirs of a Geisha by Michael Dean (reteller), Arthur Golden 4.39 avg rating — 2,424 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Memoirs of a Geisha: A Portrait of the Film by David James (Photographs), Peggy Mulloy (Text), Rob Marshall (Introduction) 4.11 avg rating — 150 ratings — published 2005	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Increase Your Score in 3 Minutes a Day: SAT Essay by Randall McCutcheon, James Schaffer, Arthur Golden (Foreword by) 2.94 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2004 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Oriental Collection: Empire of the Sun/Memoirs of a Geisha/Seven Years in Tibet by J.G. Ballard, Arthur Golden, Heinrich Harrer 3.90 avg rating — 10 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Memoirs of a Geisha by Robin Swicord (Screenwriter), Arthur Golden liked it 3.00 avg rating — 8 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, Vols 1-3 by Walt Whitman, Arthur Golden, Sculley Bradley 4.12 avg rating — 88,783 ratings — published 1892 — 3018 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Blue Book: Volume II: Textual Analysis by Walt Whitman, Arthur Golden 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1968	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Arthur Golden

“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

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“The heart dies a slow death, shedding each hope like leaves until one day there are none. No hopes. Nothing remains.”
― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

tags: death, hope

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“This is why dreams can be such dangerous things: they smolder on like a fire does, and sometimes they consume us completely.”
― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

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September BoTM Nominations ~ Book Published Before 2000 ~ Final Poll

Nobody's Fool

by Richard Russo

12 votes, 30.0%

Memoirs of a Geisha

by Arthur Golden

9 votes, 22.5%

The Mysterious Affair at Styles

by Agatha Christie

8 votes, 20.0%

Mrs. Dalloway

by Virginia Woolf

6 votes, 15.0%

The Giver

by Lois Lowry

5 votes, 12.5%

40 total votes

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