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In 2004, I took a one year sabbatical to finish my second novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns. At the end of that year, I was not done with my book, and had to in effect resign from work. I did. I never went back.

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Khaled Hosseini
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: March 4
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