Memoirs Of A Geisha

Biographie d'Arthur Golden

Arthur Golden was born and brought up in Chattanooga, Tennessee. He is a 1978 graduate of Harvard College with a degree in art history, specialising in Japanese art. In 1980 he earned an M.A. in Japanese history from Columbia University where lie also learned Mandarin Chinese. After a summer at Beijing University, he went to work at a magazine in Tokyo. In 1988 he received an M.A. in English from Boston University. He has lived and worked in Japan, and since that time bas been teaching writing and literature in the Boston area. He now lives in Brookline, Massachusetts, with his wife and children.