About the Author

Khaled Hosseini, born in 1965 in Kabul, moved from Afghanistan to France in 1976, and then to the United States in 1980 after being granted asylum. His father was a diplomat, and his mother was a teacher, but that was before they moved to the United States. They were granted asylum in the US when the Soviet coup in Afghanistan grew to unbearable proportions. In was in San Jose, CA that he graduated high school and got a degree in biology. He then earned his medical degree and became a doctor. Hosseini did not write his first novel, The Kite Runner, until 2001, and it quickly became an international best-seller.