About Khaled Hosseini Fifty one year old Khaled Hosseini of Afghan descent was born in 1965 to well-educated parents. His father was an Afghan Foreign Ministry diplomat, and his mother taught Farsi and history at a high school in Kabul. The Hosseini family was relocated to Paris by the Foreign Ministry in 1976. By 1980, the Hosseini's were ready to return home, but were frightened by the recent bloodshed that their homeland had just shed by cause of Soviet invasion. The next turn-to was the United States, where the family was accepted, and Khaled graduated from high school in 1984 and enrolled at Santa Clara University, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in biology in 1988, then in 1989, entered the University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine, where he earned his medical degree in 1993. Finally, Hosseini became a practicing internist between the years 1996 and 2004 after attending Cedars-Sinai medical center in Los Angeles. During all of his medical studies, Hosseini began his first novel, the #1 New York Times bestseller, and international bestseller, The Kite Runner, published by Riverhead Books in 2003.
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