 He was the first son of Abdollah Khaan Zohari Khalatbari, an activist in the Iranian Constitutional Revolution who had received the honorific title of "Motamed-al-Soltan Zaigham-ol-Mamalek" from Ahmad Shah Qajar.In 1931, due to his father's disagreement with Reza Shah Pahlavi, the family was exiled to Malayer, and later to Shiraz.There he started his writing career in his early teenage years by writing articles and short stories for "Toffan Magazine".