Hosseini Khaled is a contemporary American writer. Born in 1965 in the Afghan city of Kabul, and 15 years later the family settled in San Jose, California.
After school, Khaled Hosseini was a student at Santa Clara University and upon graduation in 1988 received a bachelor’s degree in biology. Khaled continued his education at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine and graduated with an M.D. in 1993.
From 1996 to 2004, Khaled Hosseini worked as a physician at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and graduated with an MD in 1993. Khaled Hosseini worked as an internist at the Los Angeles Medical Center. In parallel with his main activity in 2001 he began work on his first novel “Running after the Wind”, which was published in 2003 and brought the author fame around the world. The next work of Khaled Hosseini “A Thousand Shining Suns” was no less successful and kept in the bestseller list for a whole year. In 2013, the third novel “And the echo flies on the mountains” was published, and the writer continues to work on new bestsellers.
In 2006, Khaled Hosseini was appointed an envoy for the United Nations Refugee Agency and later founded his own foundation, The Khaled Hosseini Foundation, which provides humanitarian aid to the people of Afghanistan.
Khaled Hosseini currently resides in Northern California with his wife and two children.