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By putting one of our authors on the 'Hotspot' we hope to give
you and your reading group the chance to have all those burning
questions you might have, answered by the authors themselves - we
can't imagine a more direct way of uncovering an author's motivations
and intentions!
To celebrate the nationwide release of the film of Memoirs
of a Geisha, Arthur
Golden is this month's hotspot author. Published in vintage,
Memoirs
of a Geisha is Arthur Golden's first and only novel, which
tells the tale of a young fisherman's daughter who becomes a world
famous geisha.
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.
Read on to find out Arthur's opinions on the film of his novel.
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