Khaled
Hosseini was born in Kabul, Afghanistan in 1965. He is the
oldest of five children. His father worked for the Afghan
foreign ministry and his mother was a teacher of Farsi and
History at a large girls high school in Kabul. In 1976, Khaled’s
family was relocated to Paris, France, where his father was
assigned a diplomatic post in the Afghan embassy. The assignment
would return the Hosseini family in 1980, but by then Afghanistan
had already witnessed a bloody communist coup and the Soviet
invasion. Khaled’s family, instead, asked for and was
granted political asylum in the U.S. He moved to San Jose,
CA, with his family in 1980. He attended Santa Clara University
and graduated from UC San Diego School of Medicine. He has
been in practice as an internist since 1996. He is married,
has two children (a boy and a girl, Haris and Farah). The
Kite Runner is his first novel.
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Khaled Hosseini Website
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