Khaled Hosseini

Khaled Hosseini was born in Kabul, Afghanistan in 1965. He
is the oldest of five children. and 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 would return the
Hosseini family in 1980, but by then Afghanistan had
already witnessed a bloody communist coup and the Soviet
invasion. Khaled’s family, instead, asked for and was
granted political asylum in the U.S. He moved to San Jose,
CA, with his family in 1980. He attended Santa Clara
University and graduated from UC San Diego School of
Medicine. He has been in practice as an internist since
1996. He is married, has two children (a boy and a girl,
Haris and Farah).