He discovered his urge of being a writer at the age of 21 when he came across George Orwell’s[4] Animal Farm while helping his brother with an English assignment.

His journey as a freelance writer began in 1993 with a local edition of The Hindustan Times while studying B. Sc and wrote first five chapters of his novel Patna Blues[5][6][7] in 1997 but left writing after he started career as a banker.

After writing and rewriting his novel more than 200 times he finally finished the first draft of it in 2009 but it took him another 9 years to get Patna Blues[9][10] published.

The tale of Arif Khan, a young Bihari Muslim[14] boy who dares to desire a Hindu woman[15] received huge positive reviews[16] and got translated into ten languages including Punjabi, Arabic, Marathi, Hindi, Malayalam, Tamil, Kannada, Bangla,[17] Telugu,[18] Odia and Marathi within a year.

Abdullah Khan regularly writes articles, reviews and short stories for Indian and international magazines and newspapers.