Bio Blurb

In Kabul, Afghanistan, 1965, the award winning author of The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini, was born. His father was a diplomat of the Afghanistan Foreign Ministry, and his mother was a high school Farsi and History teacher at a large school in Kabul. At the tender age of fifteen, Khaled’s family was relocated to France as a cause to his father’s duties with the Afghan Foreign Ministries. Little did he know, this would be the last time he would ever see him home country again. Upon their attempt to return to Afghanistan in 1980, his family learned that upon their absence, Afghanistan had been invaded by the Soviet army, and was now suffering under  Communist rule. After gaining this knowledge, the Hosseini family moved to San Jose, California in that same year. Here, Khaled was able to graduate from high school in 1984, obtain a Bachelor’s degree in biology by 1988, and then move on to earn a Medical degree at The University of California in San Diego by the year 1993. After undergoing these educational accomplishments, Khaled worked as an intern/assistant for several years at Cedars-Sanai in Los Angeles where he then began to write The Kite Runner in March of 2001. The book was officially published in 2003, and Hosseini currently acts as a Goodwill Envoy for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Northern California with his wife and two children.