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    About the Author

    Khaled Hosseini was born in Kabul, Afghanistan, in and moved to the United States in with his family after their homeland had witnessed a bloody communist coup during the invasion of the Soviet Army in Hosseini graduated from high school in and enrolled at Santa Clara University, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in biology in The following year he entered the University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine, where he earned a medical degree in He completed his residency at Cedars-Sinai medical center in Los Angeles and was a practicing internist between and

    Hosseini was inspired to write a short story that would later become The Kite Runner when he heard that the Taliban had banned kites in Afghanistan. This seemed especially cruel and personal to him, as he, like Amir, grew up flying kites in Kabul.

    He is the author of the New York Times bestsellers The Kite Runner, A Thousand Splendid Suns, and And the Mountains Echoed. When he is not busy

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    Khaled Hosseini, M.D.

    Your English is virtually unaccented and perfectly fluent, and you write in English. Where did that fluency come from?

    Khaled Hosseini: I think part of it is youth.  Farsi was my first language. I learned French when I was eleven, and we lived in France for about four years, so that became my second language. And then we moved to the States, and I was 15 at that time, so I began to pick up English. Actually, I picked up English pretty quickly, probably within a year I was pretty fluent. And part of it is that you&#;re still very pliable mentally at 14, 15 years old. You still are not fully rooted in that, so you still have that ability to absorb things in a kind of a childlike way. And so I picked up the language pretty quickly. And I think part of it also is that I always had kind of an ease with foreign languages. I always had an ear for it and seemed to pick it up more quickly than some of my friends and fellow students. So I think it was a combination o

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    Khaled Hosseini

    Afghan-American novelist (born )

    For other people with similar names, see Khalid Hussain (disambiguation).

    Khaled Hosseini (; Persian/Pashto خالد حسینی[ˈxɒledhoˈsejni]; born March 4, ) is an Afghan-American novelist, UNHCR goodwill ambassador, and former physician.[1][2] His debut novel The Kite Runner () was a critical and commercial success; the book and his subsequent novels have all been at least partially set in Afghanistan and have featured an Afghan as the protagonist. Hosseini's novels have spread awareness about Afghanistan's people and culture.[3]

    Hosseini was briefly a resident of Iran and France after being born in Kabul, Afghanistan, to a diplomat father. When Hosseini was 15, his family applied for asylum in the United States, where he later became a naturalized citizen. Hosseini did not return to Afghanistan until [4] when he was 38, an experience similar to that of the protagonist in The Kite