Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900-1944) · AuthorAuthor
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
1900-1944 · French aviator and writer, author of The Little Prince
About Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900-1944) was a French aviator and writer, born in Lyon. He flew the airmail routes of the Aéropostale line across the Sahara and South America and drew on that work in Night Flight (Vol de nuit, 1931) and Wind, Sand and Stars (Terre des hommes, 1939). In December 1935 he crashed in the Libyan desert with his mechanic André Prévot and survived several days without water before being rescued by a Bedouin. He wrote The Little Prince in the United States during the Second World War, then rejoined the Free French air forces, and disappeared on a reconnaissance flight over the Mediterranean on 31 July 1944.
Notable works
- The Little Prince (1943)
- Wind, Sand and Stars (1939)
- Night Flight (1931)
- Southern Mail (1929)
- Flight to Arras (1942)
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The Little PrinceAntoine de Saint-Exupéry
1943 · Early 20th Century · Novella
The Little Prince is told by a pilot who, as a boy of six, drew a boa constrictor digesting an elephant; every grown-up who saw Drawing Number One took it for a hat, and he gave up art for flying. Years later his engine fails in the Sahara, a thousand miles from anyone, with water for about a week.