Khaled Hosseini
Khaled Hosseini is an Afghan American novelist who found success with his 2003 novel Kite Runner. All his books feature either Afghan protagonists or are set in Afghanistan, spreading awareness of the Afghan people and their culture to the rest of the world.
Hosseini was born in Kabul, Afghanistan and lived in both Iran and France for a short period of time before applying for asylum in the United States of America in 1980, where he moved along with his family.
After graduating from college, Hosseini worked as a physician in California until his first book, Kite Runner, found success and he moved from medicine to becoming a writer full time, where he wrote his second novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns.