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About the
Author
Khaled Hosseini
was born in Kabul, Afghanistan in 1965. He is the oldest of
five children. 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 ended
in 1980, but by then Afghanistan had already witnessed a bloody
communist coup and the Soviet invasion. Khaled's family,
instead, asked for and were granted political asylum in the United
States. They moved to San Jose, California in 1980.
Khaled attended Santa Clara University and graduated from the
University of California, San Diego School of Medicine. He has
been in practice as an internist since 1996. He is married and
has two children (a boy and a girl, Haris and Farah). The
Kite Runner is his first novel.
Khaled Hosseini spoke at an Afghan Relief Organization
fundraiser in Orange County on Friday, February 24, 2006.
Find out more about this event on their
website.
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