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Arthur Golden

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Arthur Golden was born and brought up in Chattanooga, Tennessee. He is a 1978 graduate of Harvard College with a degree in art history, specialising in Japanese art. In 1980 he earned an MA in Japanese history from Columbia where he also learned Mandarin Chinese. In 1988 he received an MA in English from Boston. He has lived and worked in Japan, but now lives in Brookline, Massachusetts, with his wife and children.
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Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden is an acclaimed work of historical fiction, published in 1997. Set in Kyoto, Japan, the novel offers a mesmerizing glimpse into the secretive world of geishas, spanning the years before, during, and after World War II. The novel's success led to an Academy Award-winning film adaptation in 2005, directed by Rob Marshall and starring Zhang Ziyi.

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 'I never seek to defeat the man I am fighting,' he explained. 'I seek to defeat his confidence. A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory. Two men are equals—true equals—only when they both have equal confidence.'


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