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Arthur golden author7/5/2023 ![]() Rosenfield, a mentor of Golden’s from his college days.Īttracted by the dynamic personality of this distinguished Japanese art scholar, Golden says he chose to concentrate in Japanese art history as an undergraduate. “I really think that the scholar in college was father of the man,” says Professor Emeritus John. The seeds of Memoirs were sewn during Golden’s time as an undergraduate at Harvard, where he acquired a grounding in Japanese art, language and culture which led to many more years of scholarship. Golden breathed life into this exotic world with his capacity for empathy, attention to historical detail and an obsession with accuracy-both in the development of his characters and their surroundings. Memoirs captivated readers through the seductive first person voice of Sayuri as she is trained in the arts of the geisha-dance and music wearing kimono, elaborate makeup and hair pouring sake in a way designed to beguile competing with a jealous rival for men’s attention-and the money that goes with it. The book follows the poignant story of the young, light-eyed daughter of a poor Japanese fisherman who is sold into slavery in a Geisha house in distant Kyoto. ![]() Not so for Arthur Golden ’78, who overcame this obstacle to author the wildly successful novel Memoirs of a Geisha, which remained on The New York Times Best-Seller List for more than a year. For most students, a failing grade in the first-year rite of passage Expository Writing marks the end of a literary career. ![]()
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