Arthur Golden
| Arthur Golden | |
|---|---|
| Born |
December 6, 1956 Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Nationality | American |
| Period | 20th century |
| Genre | Historical fiction |
| Notable works | Memoirs of a Geisha (1997) |
| Spouse | Trudy Legge (1982–present) |
| Children | Hays Nathaniel Golden Tess Iphigene Golden |
Arthur Golden (born December 6, 1956) is an American writer. He is the author of the bestselling novel Memoirs of a Geisha (1997).
His parents, Ben and Ruth Golden (later Holmberg), divorced when Arthur was eight years old. His father died five years after. He has a younger sister, Barbara.
Golden is a member of the Ochs-Sulzberger family (owners of the New York Times). His mother, Ruth Holmberg, is the daughter of long-time Times publisher Arthur Hays Sulzberger and granddaughter of Times owner and publisher Adolph Ochs. Golden was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, grew up on Lookout Mountain, Georgia, and attended Lookout Mountain Elementary School in Lookout Mountain, Tennessee. He spent his middle and high school years at the Baylor School (then a boys-only school for day and boarding students) in Chattanooga, graduating in 1974. He attended Harvard University and received a degree in art history, specializing in Japanese art. In 1980, he earned an M.A. in Japanese history at Columbia University, and also learned Mandarin Chinese. After a summer at Peking University in Beijing, China, he worked in Tokyo. When he returned to the United States, he earned an M.A. in English at Boston University. He currently lives in Brookline, Massachusetts. He is married to Trudi Legge; they have two children: a son, Hays Nathaniel Golden, and a daughter, Tess Iphigene Golden.
After its release in 1997, Memoirs of a Geisha spent two years on the New York Times bestseller list. It has sold more than four million copies in English and has been translated into thirty-two languages around the world.
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