Have you ever read any historical fiction? They're books with settings that occurred in the past.
Yes- Two of my favorite books are historical fiction! Memoirs of a Geisha and A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. 
I haven't read "Memoirs of a Geisha" but I heard it had to do with a woman who wasn't very attractive and ended up being forced into prostitution.
No, it was about a girl who was beautiful, grew up very poor and ended up as a geisha. Geisha's aren't the same as prostitutes. Have you read any historical fiction? 
I used to read a lot of historical romance novels. But I found them to be inaccurate and inauthentic. I hear that's a common criticism of historical fiction
Yeah. I know that memoirs of a geisha has been criticized for being written from the point of view of a japanese woman but written by a white american man
the genre for its other thematic and critical interests.
Historical fiction as a contemporary Western literary genre has its foundations in the early-19th-century works of Sir Walter Scott and his contemporaries in other national literatures such as the Frenchman Honoré de Balzac, the American James Fenimore Cooper, and a later Russian, Leo Tolstoy. However, the melding of "historical" and "fiction" in individual works of literature has a long tradition in most cultures; both western traditions (as early as Ancient Greek and Roman literature) as
Memoirs of a Geisha
Memoirs of a Geisha is a historical fiction novel by American author Arthur Golden, published in 1997. The novel, told in first person perspective, tells the story of a fictional geisha working in Kyoto, Japan, before, during and after World War II and ends with her being relocated to New York City.
In 2005, a film version was released.
Plot summary.
Nine year old Chiyo Sakamoto (坂本千代) is taken from her poverty-stricken fishing village of Yoroido (