Khaled Hossein
04-Mar-1965
Afghanistan
Novelist
Khaled Hosseini was born in Kabul, Afghanistan, in 1965. His father was a Afghan counterpart and his mother taught Farsi and history at Kabul High School. In 1976, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs relocated the Hosseini family to Paris. They had planned to return to Kabul in 1980, but by then their country had witnessed the Communist occupation and the invasion of the Soviet army. Hosseinis sought and granted asylum in the United States, and in September 1980 they moved to San Jose, California. Hosseini graduated from high school in 1984 and enrolled at Santa Clara University, where he earned a bachelor's degree in biology in 1988. The following year he entered the University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine, where he graduated with a doctorate in 1993. He graduated from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles and was a practitioner between 1996 and 2004.