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March 1, 2002
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: Deborah Pankey-Mebane
dps@jhu.edu
410-516-7157


Memoirs of a Geisha Author to Deliver Pouder Lecture

Arthur Golden (pictured at right), author of the best-selling novel Memoirs of a Geisha, will deliver the G. Harry Pouder Memorial Lecture at 8 p.m. on Tuesday, April 16, in Shriver Hall Auditorium on the Homewood campus of The Johns Hopkins University, 3400 N. Charles St. in Baltimore.

Golden's talk, "Memoirs of a Geisha: The Making of a Novel," will focus on his writing the 60-year tale -- told in the form of a memoir -- of Sayuri's sale to a geisha house at age 9 and her transformation into one of Japan's most celebrated geishas. Golden traces Sayuri's life from her childhood of poverty to her mastery of the arts of dance and music, makeup and the competition for the solicitude of prominent and wealthy men.

Golden, whose parents published The Chattanooga Times and whose uncle published The New York Times, received his degree in art history from Harvard, a master's degree in Japanese history from Columbia University, and a master's in English from Boston University. He learned the details of the life of a geisha from Mineko Iwasaki, a retired Kyoto geisha.

Since 1978, the G. Harry Pouder Memorial Lecture, focusing on American or English literature, has honored the late executive vice president of the Baltimore Association of Commerce, who died in 1971. A graduate of the Johns Hopkins Evening College, Pouder wrote plays and was associated with the Homewood Playshop, now known as Theatre Hopkins. Past Pouder lecturers include Leon Uris, James Michener, Tom Stoppard, William Styron, Joyce Carol Oates, Larry McMurtry, Stephen Ambrose and Richard Ford.

The lecture is free and open to the public, but tickets are required. For information, call 410-516-7157.


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