Patricia Schultz – Saturday,
May 11
Khaled Hosseini –
Friday, May 31
Meet bestselling
travel writer
Patricia Schultz at
the Main Library
on Saturday, May
11, at 2:00 p.m. She
is the author of
the international
No. 1 bestsellers,
1,000 Places to See
Before You Die and
1,000 Places to See
in the United States
Patricia Schultz
and Canada Before
You Die. With
these works, she has reinvented the idea of
a travel book as both wish list and practical
guide. She was chosen by Forbes as one
of the 25 most influential women in travel,
and was executive producer of the Travel
Channel’s TV show based on her first 1,000
Places book.
Thanks to
Joseph-Beth
Booksellers,
Khaled Hosseini,
one of the
world’s most
widely read
novelists, will be
appearing at the
Main Library
on Friday, May
31 at 7:00 p.m.
His novels have
Khaled Hosseini
sold more than
10 million copies
in the U.S. alone. He began writing his first
novel, The Kite Runner, while practicing
medicine. Published in 2003, that debut
became an international bestseller, sold
in at least 70 countries, and spent more
than 100 weeks on The New York Times
bestseller list.
The second edition of 1,000 Places to See
Before You Die
came out in 2011,
with 200 entirely
new destinations,
28 new countries,
full-color
photographs,
and more than
50 percent in
new material
woven into the
revised and
expanded entries,
which emphasize
comprehensive travel experiences instead of
single sites.
In May 2007, his second novel was
released. Now, six years after A Thousand
Splendid Suns debuted at No. 1 on The New
York Times bestseller list, Hosseini returns
with a book that is broader in scope and
setting than anything he’s ever written
before. A multigenerational family story,
Hosseini’s much-awaited third novel, And
the Mountains Echoed, will be published
on May 21, 2013. It is an emotional,
provocative, and unforgettable novel about
how we love, how we take care of one
another, and how the choices we make
resonate through generations.
Schultz has written about travel for The
Wall Street Journal, Everyday with Rachael
Ray, Travel Weekly, and for guides such
as Frommer’s and Berlitz. She is a popular
speaker both in the U.S. and abroad. In more
than 25 years of travel writing, she has never
lost her curiosity or passion. “Some people
can speed from New York to L.A. without
registering a thing,” she writes. “I can walk
around my mid-Manhattan block and come
home with a carton of milk and stories to
tell. In the end, the number of miles covered
has nothing to do with the real pleasures of
travel—the inherent beauty of the world and
the discovery it promises are all around us.”
Born in Kabul, Afghanistan, in 1965, Khaled
Hosseini is the son of a diplomat in the
Afghan Foreign Ministry and a mother
who taught Farsi and history at a Kabul
high school. In 1976, the Foreign Ministry
relocated the Hosseini family to Paris. They
were ready to return to Kabul in 1980, but
by then their homeland had witnessed a
bloody communist coup and the invasion
of the Soviet Army. The Hosseinis were
granted political asylum in the U.S., settling
in San Jose, California. Khaled Hosseini
earned a bachelor’s degree at Santa Clara
University in 1988 and a medical degree
from the University of California, San Diego,
School of Medicine in 1993. He completed
his residency at Cedars-Sinai Medical
Center in Los Angeles and was a practicing
internist between 1996 and 2004.
In 2006, Hosseini was named a Goodwill
Envoy to UNHCR, the United Nations
Refugee Agency. Inspired by a trip he
made to Afghanistan with the UNHCR,
he later established The Khaled Hosseini
Foundation, a nonprofit, which provides
humanitarian assistance to the people of
Afghanistan. He currently lives in northern
California.
Following his presentation, Joseph-Beth
Booksellers will be selling copies of Khaled
Hosseini’s latest book to be signed by the
author. This event is free and open to the
public. The signing portion of the evening
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