Khaled Hosseini

Khaled Hosseni was born on March 4, 1965 in Kabul, Afghanistan. Growing up, Hosseini was the oldest of five children and lived in the Wazir Akbar Khan district. His father was a diplomat for the Afghan Foreign Ministry, while his mother was a high school teacher who taught Persian literature.
Hosseini and his family were actually living in Paris, France during the Russian invasion of Afghanistan during 1980. Instead of returning to their hometown of Kabul, the family was granted political asylum and moved to San Jose, California. The Kite Runner was an autobiographical experience of Khaled Hosseini's as an immigrant living in California.
In 1984, Khaled Hosseini graduated from high school, and was also now fluent in English. Before writing novels, he studied medicine. Khaled Hosseini soon graduated from Santa Clara University with a bachelor degree in biology in 1989. And in 1993, he graduated from UC San Diego School of Medicine.
After expanding his short story, Hosseini returned to Kabul, Afghanistan before the official publication of his novel "The Kite Runner" in 2003. The Kite Runner received many outstanding award, including the Original Voice award and the San Francisco Chronicle "Best Book of the Year" award.
Khaled Hosseini's novel was made into a film in the year of 2007. The same year he then published his second novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns.