Arthur Golden

Arthur Golden is an American author best known for his bestselling novel *Memoirs of a Geisha* (1997), a fictional autobiography of a Japanese geisha in the 1920s and 1930s that sold over four million copies in English and was translated into 33 languages.[1][2] Born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, he graduated from Harvard College with a B.A. in art history specializing in Japanese art, earned an M.A. in Japanese history from Columbia University in 1980, and an M.A. in English from Boston University in 1988, and worked in Tokyo before residing in Brookline, Massachusetts, with his wife Trudy Legge and two children.[1][3]