Is the Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini, his autobiography?

Khaled Hosseini is born in Kabul in 1965 and is the oldest of five children. His father is a diplomat for the Afghan Foreign Ministry, and his mother is a high school teacher. Hosseini has a childhood friend who is a Shi'a Muslim, and Hosseini grow up in a comfortable existence, loving American movies and flying kites. read more

Khaled Hosseini was born in Kabul, Afghanistan, in 1965. His father was a diplomat in the Afghan Foreign Ministry and his mother taught Farsi and history at a high school in Kabul. In 1976, the Foreign Ministry relocated the Hosseini family to Paris. read more

Khaled Hosseini is the bestselling Afghan born American author of The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns. He was born in Kabul, Afghanistan on March 4, 1965. His father was an Afghan diplomat who worked at the Afghan Foreign Ministry and his mother, a high school teacher taught Farsi and History in a large Kabul school. read more