Khaled Hosseini

Khaled Hosseini is an Afghan-American author of literary fiction. When Khaled was 11 years old, his father got a job in Paris, where the family moved. Unable to return home to Afghanistan due to a political coup, the family got political asylum in the United States, moving to San Jose, California. In addition to being a novelist, Khaled is also a physician, which he practiced for ten years until afterThe Kite Runner‘s success.