Arthur Golden
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About
An American fiction writer, he is particularly known for his bestselling 1997 novel, Memoirs of a Geisha. The novel was adapted into an Academy Award-winning feature film in the first decade of the 21st Century.
Before fame
He spent a summer at Peking University in Beijing, China and also worked in Tokyo, Japan.
Trivia
He wrote Memoirs of a Geisha over a six-year period.
Family life
He was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee. He married Trudy Legee in 1982.
Associated with
His novel, Memoirs of a Geisha, was made into a feature film starring Ken Watanabe.
