Khaled Hosseini was born in Kabul, Afghanistan, and moved to the United States in 1980. He is the author of the
New York Times bestsellers
The Kite Runner,
A Thousand Splendid Suns, and
And the Mountains Echoed. He is A
U.S. Goodwill Envoy to the United Nations Refugee Agency, and the founder of The
Khaled Hosseini Foundation, a nonprofit that provides humanitarian assistance to the people of Afghanistan.
