Khaled Hosseini Author of the bestselling novels "The Kite Runner" and "A Thousand Splendid Suns"

Khaled Hosseini

Author Biography

Khaled Hosseini was born in Kabul, Afghanistan, in 1965. His father was a diplomat with the Afghan Foreign Ministry and his mother taught Farsi and History at a large high school in Kabul. In 1976, the Afghan Foreign Ministry relocated the Hosseini family to Paris.
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Hafez

Omar Khayyam

Alice Munro

J.M. Coetzee

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Stephen Colbert "arguing" with Khaled Hosseini on BookTV

Funny video of conversation between Stephen Colbert and Khaled Hosseini on BookTV.

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