Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry was born in Lyon, France, in 1900 into an old aristocratic family. His father died when he was a small boy. He trained as a pilot during his military service and in the 1920s flew airmail routes for the company Aéropostale across North Africa and later in South America, where he managed an airline in Argentina. These years gave him the material for his books Southern Mail, Night Flight and Wind, Sand and Stars, which describe the dangers and loneliness of early aviation. In 1935 he and his navigator crashed in the Sahara while trying to set a speed record and nearly died of thirst before being rescued by a Bedouin. After the fall of France in 1940 he went to the United States, where he wrote and illustrated The Little Prince, published in 1943. He then rejoined the Free French air force, and in July 1944 he disappeared on a reconnaissance flight over the Mediterranean.

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Faith: Born into an aristocratic French Catholic family; his adult beliefs are not well documented. Source: Wikipedia