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Arthur Golden · Arts & Literature

What

Author of Memoirs of a Geisha, translated into more than thirty languages and sold in the millions

When

6 December 1956, Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States

Where

United States

Biography

Arthur Golden is recognized among Jewish contributors to Arts & Literature — Author of Memoirs of a Geisha, translated into more than thirty languages and sold in the millions

How & why

Arthur Golden's mother was Jewish; he is a great-grandson of Adolph Ochs, who bought The New York Times. Trained in Japanese art history at Harvard and Columbia and having lived in Tokyo, he spent years on Memoirs of a Geisha (1997), rewriting it three times after interviewing a former geisha; it stayed on the bestseller lists for two years and has been translated into more than thirty languages.

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Author of Memoirs of a Geisha, translated into more than thirty languages and sold in the millions

1997

Source: Wikipedia — Arthur Golden