The Little Prince

About the author

Born Born on July 29th in Lyon, in an old Aristocratic Family, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry serves in the Air army and becomes a pilot. His vocation feed his writing, and both give him the French Medal of Honor. His novels Southern Mail (1929), Night Flight (1931, Prix Femina) and Wind, Sand and Stars (1939, Prix de l’académie française), are a worldwide success, same as his late novels, written in the US during the war: Flight to Arrasand and The Little Prince. Reintestated in the Free French Forces, Saint-Exupéry was shot down on mission on July 31, 1944.

While not precisely autobiographical, much of Saint-Exupéry's work is inspired by his experiences as a pilot. One biographer wrote of his most famous work: "Rarely have an author and a character been so intimately bound together as Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and his Little Prince," and remarking of their dual fates, "...the two remain tangled together, twin innocents who fell from the sky."