Khaled Hosseini: The Author

Khaled Hosseini: The Author

Khaled Hosseini was born on March 4, 1965 in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan as the oldest of five children. His father worked for the Afghan Foreign Ministry as a diplomat, and his mother was a high school teacher of Farsi and history. When he was five years old, his family moved from Kabul to Tehran, Iran. They returned to Kabul in the historic year of 1973, when Afghanistan became a republic (www.gradesaver.com). In 1976, his family followed his father to Paris. After the Soviets seized the control of the government in 1978 shortly thereafter, ...