Storytellers
The author of The Kite Runner picks his favorite short story collections. His new book is And the Mountains Echoed.
Khaled Hosseini was born in Kabul, Afghanistan, in 1965. He is the author of the international bestsellers The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns. His latest book is And the Mountains Echoed. In 2006, Hosseini was named a Goodwill Envoy to UNHCR, the United Nations Refugee Agency. He later established The Khaled Hosseini Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit which provides humanitarian assistance to the people of Afghanistan. He lives in Northern California.