Khaled Hosseini

Khaled Hosseini (b. March 4, 1965) is an Afghan American author. Born in Kabul, his family moved to Paris in 1976, where his father worked at a diplomatic post. Though scheduled to return to Afghanistan in 1980, the family was wary of the impact of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and requested political asylum in the United States. He graduated from the School of Medicine at the University of California San Diego in 1993 and has since worked as an internist.

In 2001 in literature, he began working on his first novel, The Kite Runner, about life in Afghanistan from the fall of the monarchy until the collapse of the Taliban regime. Published in 2003, it became an instant success. Hosseini is currently working on his second novel.