Khaled Hosseini was born in Kabul, Afghanistan, and moved to the United States in 1980. He is the author of the #1 New York Times bestsellers The Kite Runner, A Thousand Splendid Suns, and And the Mountains Echoed, as well as illustrated book Sea Prayer. 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.