Khaled Hosseini, author portrait
© Brian Sokol

Khaled Hosseini

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 RunnerA Thousand Splendid Suns, and And the Mountains Echoed. Hosseini is also a U.S. Goodwill Envoy to the UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and the founder of The Khaled Hosseini Foundation, a nonprofit that provides humanitarian assistance to the people of Afghanistan.
The Kite Runner 20th Anniversary Edition
Sea Prayer
And the Mountains Echoed
The Kite Runner
The Kite Runner Graphic Novel
A Thousand Splendid Suns Illustrated Edition

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The Kite Runner 20th Anniversary Edition
Sea Prayer
And the Mountains Echoed
The Kite Runner
The Kite Runner Graphic Novel
A Thousand Splendid Suns Illustrated Edition

Dear Librarians: A Letter from Khaled Hosseini, Author of The Kite Runner

Inside a drawer in my office desk sits a stash of manilla envelopes. Inside each are some of the letters I have collected over a span of nearly twenty years from high school students across the U.S. In these writings, the students share with me, often quite poignantly, what impact reading The Kite Runner has had on their lives.

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