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His mother, Ruth Sulzberger, is a member of the Ochs-Sulzberger family lineage, which owned and ran the New York Times during its earliest period. He is related to the original owner and publisher of the New York Times, Adolph Ochs.

They have two children, and they presently live in South Dartmouth, Massachusetts. Golden got married in 1982 to Gertrude “Trudy” Legge. He received a degree in art history, majoring in Japanese art. Golden’s passion for Japanese art inspired him to study it at university. Golden graduated high school in 1974 before leaving for college, where he would attend Harvard University. He went to middle and high school at the boys-only school, Baylor School. He spent his childhood growing up in Lookout Mountain, Georgia, where he attended Lookout Mountain Elementary School. Golden’s parents separated when he was very young, only eight years old. His parents are Ruth née Sulzberger Golden and Ben Hale Golden.

The novel was famously the subject of a court case that arose after the geisha Golden interviewed accused him of breach of contract and suggested that he had agreed to, ensuring that she broke a traditional code of silence.Īrthur Golden was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, on December 6th. The film is also often cited as the driving force behind new readers exploring Golden’s only written work. In 2005, Golden sold the rights to the novel to be made into a film, and it was quite successful in theaters winning three Academy Awards. Today, far more of the public is familiar with the film than the novel. It was listed on the New York Times bestseller for that period, as well. The novel sold more than 4 million copies in the two years after it was published.

It’s believed by others that the success of the novel was the main reason he has, so far, felt as though he doesn’t need to write anything else. Memoirs of a Geisha – in terms of his literary output, American writer Arthur Golden has only one notable achievement- ‘ Memoirs of a Geisha.’ He spent six years researching ‘ Memoirs of a Geisha,’ which some readers have suggested, may have worn him out as a writer.

Japanese readers were upset with Golden’s depiction of geisha as prostitutes in his novel.

The novel was made into a film in 2005, which received three Academy Awards.

Arthur Golden was sued after the Japanese release of the novel by a former geisha he interviewed, Mineko Iwasaki.

His mother, Ruth Sulzberger Holmberg, was also an accomplished publisher for The Chattanooga Times.

He is the great-grandson of the original and former owner/publisher of the New York Times, Adolph Ochs.

His only novel ‘ Memoirs of a Geisha‘ was written over six years.