AGE: 43
OCCUPATION: Author of The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid
Suns
NUMBER OF TIME COVERS: 0
PREVIOUS APPEARANCES ON THE TIME 100: 1
PRO: Hosseini's no one-hit wonder: Suns garnered generally positive reviews and has spent nearly 50 weeks on the New York Times Best Sellers list.
CON: The release of the film adaptation of The Kite Runner was delayed over worries that edgy sexual content would spark reprisals against its three young stars — they had to be removed from Kabul. In the West, it got mostly ho-hum reviews.