Arthur Golden

Arthur Golden (born December 6, 1956) is an American writer. He is the author of the bestselling novel Memoirs of a Geisha (1997). 2Life and career His parents, Ben and Ruth Golden (later Holmberg), divorced when Arthur was eight years old. His father died five years after. He has a younger sister, Barbara. Golden is a member of the Ochs-Sulzberger family (owners of the New York Times). His mother, Ruth Sulzberger Holmberg, who died on April 19, 2017, was the daughter of long-time Times publisher Arthur Hays Sulzberger and granddaughter of Times owner and publisher Adolph Ochs. Golden was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, grew up on Lookout Mountain, Georgia, and attended Lookout Mountain Elementary School in Lookout Mountain, Tennessee. He spent his middle and high school years at the Baylor School (then a boys-only school for day and boarding students) in Chattanooga, graduating in 1974. He attended Harvard University and received a degree in art history, specializing in Japanese ar