Add New
Videos

6 comments

Add a comment

Khaled Hosseini

Author profile

born

March 04, 1965 in Kabul, Afghanistan

gender

male

website

http://www.khaledhosseini.com/

genre

Literature & Fiction

About this author

edit data

Khaled Hosseini was born in Kabul, Afghanistan, in 1965. His father was a diplomat with the Afghan Foreign Ministry and his mother taught Farsi and History at a large high school in Kabul. In 1976, the Afghan Foreign Ministry relocated the Hosseini family to Paris. They were ready to return to Kabul in 1980, but by then Afghanistan had already witnessed a bloody communist coup and the invasion of the Soviet army. The Hosseinis sought and were granted political asylum in the United States. In September of 1980, Hosseini's family moved to San Jose, California. Hosseini graduated from high school in 1984 and enrolled at Santa Clara University where he earned a bachelor's degree in Biology in 1988. The following year, he entered the University ...more

See if your friends have read any of Khaled Hosseini's books.

8 posts
Khaled Hosseini's Blog

Khaled Hosseini isn't a Goodreads Author (yet), but he does have a blog, so here are some recent posts imported from his feed.

UNHCR's Shelter Program in Afghanistan

Dear Readers:Thank you for letters of support and encouragement. As ever, I cherish and appreciate them immensely.Well it appears that The Khaled Hosseini Foundation is up and running. We had our first public event to raise funds for the foundation on April 25th. My good friends Michael and Carolyn Bealmear, whom I have known through Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) fundraising, arr... read more »

View more on Khaled Hosseini's website »

4 comments

•

like 18 likes

•

Published on May 08, 2009 03:56 • 1,012 views

View all 8 posts »

combine editions
Books by Khaled Hosseini

Average rating: 4.19 · 700,822 ratings · 55,551 reviews · 12 distinct works

	The Kite Runner 4.15 avg rating — 507,012 ratings — published 1385 — 133 editions	My rating:
	A Thousand Splendid Suns 4.28 avg rating — 192,889 ratings — published 2006 — 101 editions	My rating:
	The Kite Runner & A Thousand Splendid Suns [Two Vol, Each Numbered And Signed By The Author, In Slipcase In Shrinkwrap] 4.47 avg rating — 318 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Kite Runner Graphic Novel 4.26 avg rating — 223 ratings — 7 editions	My rating:
	Khaled Hosseini's the Kite Runner, Bridging the Gap: College Reading 4.62 avg rating — 8 ratings	My rating:
	Kite Runner-Multiple Critical Perspectives 3.12 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2009	My rating:
	Cometas en el cielo 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2011	My rating:
	Kaito Rannā 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2006	My rating:
	I cieli di Kabul : interviste 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:
	Stones into Schools: Promoting Peace with Books, Not Bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan by Greg Mortenson (Goodreads Author), Khaled Hosseini (Foreword) 4.04 avg rating — 6,379 ratings — 23 editions	My rating:
	The Kite Runner: A Portrait of the Epic Film (Newmarket Pictorial Moviebooks) by David Benioff, Khaled Hosseini (Introduction) 4.21 avg rating — 496 ratings — published 2008 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Stein Der Geduld Roman by ʻAtīq Raḥīmī, Khaled Hosseini (Vorwort), Lis Künzli (Übersetzer) 3.44 avg rating — 349 ratings — published 2008 — 23 editions	My rating:
	The Whirligig Issues 3-9 by Frank Marcopolos (Goodreads Author), Khaled Hosseini, Jeff Somers (Goodreads Author) 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Beyond Stolen Flames, Forbidden Fruit, and Telephone Booths: Our Own Myths, Our Own Futures by San Francisco San Francisco Bay Area Students, Khaled Hosseini 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2011	My rating:

More books by Khaled Hosseini…

Upcoming Events

No scheduled events. Add an event.

Quotes by Khaled Hosseini

“But better to be hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”
― Khaled Hosseini

tags: life

3,372 people liked it

“For you, a thousand times over”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

tags: the-kite-runner

1,049 people liked it

“It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime...”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

tags: fair , life

830 people liked it

See all Khaled Hosseini's quotes »

Polls

What would you like to read as a group for June 2011?

Lincoln by Gore Vidal

5 votes, 38.5%

The Secret History by Donna Tartt

4 votes, 30.8%

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

3 votes, 23.1%

Big Stone Gap by Adriana Trigiani

1 vote, 7.7%

13 total votes

comments and details

More...

Topics Mentioning This Author

topics	posts	views	last activity
Glens Falls (NY) ...: _The Twilight Saga_ by Stephenie Meyer	64	99	Mar 03, 2009 08:58pm
The Next Best Boo...: OFFICIAL WINTER CHALLENGE - 2008/2009	2174	3425	Mar 04, 2009 07:03am
The Book Challenge: Joy's 2009 Book Challenge	1	25	Mar 05, 2009 01:46pm
Challenge: 50 Books: Courtney L's 50 for 2009	21	105	Mar 14, 2009 10:35am
tbr-reading-chall...: Mandy's TBR Challenge	3	48	Apr 08, 2009 07:15pm
Romance Readers R...: April Monthly Challenge: Participant's List Thread	310	502	May 01, 2009 08:30pm

More…

Is this you? Let us know. If not, help out and invite Khaled to Goodreads.

Add NewVideos

Khaled's Fans (2776)