A Thousand Splendid Suns

A Thousand Splendid Suns | Biography

Khaled Hosseini was born in Kabul, Afghanistan, in 1965. His father was a diplomat with the Afghan Foreign Ministry, and his mother was a teacher. The family was living in Paris in 1980 when the Russians occupied Afghanistan, and they were granted political asylum in the United States. They moved to California, where Hosseini graduated from high school and later earned a degree in biology from Santa Clara University in 1988. In 1993, Hosseini graduated from the University of California, San Diego, with a degree in medicine. He practiced medicine as an internist until 2004.

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