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Arthur Golden

Born

in Chattanooga, Tennessee, The United States

December 06, 1956

Genre

Literature & Fiction, Historical Fiction

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Arthur Sulzberger Golden is an American writer. He is the author of the bestselling novel Memoirs of a Geisha (1997).

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Average rating: 4.16 · 2,155,142 ratings · 40,902 reviews · 10 distinct works • Similar authors

	Memoirs of a Geisha 4.16 avg rating — 2,144,779 ratings — published 1997 — 344 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Memoirs of a Geisha by Michael Dean (Reteller), Arthur Golden 4.46 avg rating — 9,117 ratings — published 2000 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	さゆり上 [Sayuri 1] by Arthur Golden, アーサー・ゴールデン, 小川高義 (翻訳) 4.38 avg rating — 575 ratings — published 1999 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	さゆり下 [Sayuri 2] by Arthur Golden, アーサー・ゴールデン, 小川高義 (翻訳) 4.48 avg rating — 517 ratings — published 1999 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Memoirs of a Geisha: Portrait of the Film by David James (Photographs), Peggy Mulloy (Text), Rob Marshall (Goodreads Author) (Introduction) 4.19 avg rating — 175 ratings — published 2005 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Memoirs of a Geisha by Robin Swicord (Screenwriter), Arthur Golden 4.34 avg rating — 47 ratings — published 2005 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Oriental Collection: Empire of the Sun/Memoirs of a Geisha/Seven Years in Tibet by J.G. Ballard, Arthur Golden, Heinrich Harrer 3.79 avg rating — 14 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Untitled Novel 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	MEMORIAS DE UMA GUEIXA - PORTUGUES BRASIL by Arthur Golden, Unknown Author 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Halloween Horror Crossword Puzzle Book for Adults: 100 Spooky Large Print Puzzles Celebrating Classic Monsters, Iconic Slashers and Haunted Legends — ... Them All? 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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さゆり [Sayuri] (2 books)
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Arthur Golden,

アーサー・ゴールデン,

小川高義 (翻訳)

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Quotes by Arthur Golden (?)

“At the temple there is a poem called "Loss" carved into the stone. It has three words, but the poet has scratched them out. You cannot read loss, only feel it.”
― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

tags: death, loss

1797 likes

“The heart dies a slow death, shedding each hope like leaves until one day there are none. No hopes. Nothing remains.”
― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

tags: death, hope

1306 likes

“This is why dreams can be such dangerous things: they smolder on like a fire does, and sometimes they consume us completely.”
― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

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November 2014 New School Classics Poll

1920, The Age of Innocence byEdith Wharton, 305 pages

19 votes, 14.1%

1911, Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie, 155 pages

19 votes, 14.1%

1970, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou, 291 pages

14 votes, 10.4%

1997, Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden, 428 pages

13 votes, 9.6%

1962, A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle, 211 pages

10 votes, 7.4%

1985, Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy, 337 pages

10 votes, 7.4%

1998, The Poisonwood Bible, by Barbara Kingsolver, 546 pages

9 votes, 6.7%

1908, The Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton, 198 pages

8 votes, 5.9%

1993, Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernières, 437 pages

7 votes, 5.2%

1994, Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier, 449 pages

7 votes, 5.2%

1956, Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin, 159 pages

5 votes, 3.7%

1914, Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham, 684 pages

3 votes, 2.2%

1920, Main Street by Sinclair Lewis, 454 pages

3 votes, 2.2%

1960, The Moviegoer by Walker Percy, 242 pages

3 votes, 2.2%

1939, How Green Was My Valleyby Richard Llewellyn, 448 pages

2 votes, 1.5%

1985, The Postman: Il Postino by Antonio Skármeta, 128 pages

2 votes, 1.5%

1966, Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih, 176 pages

1 vote, 0.7%

135 total votes

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