Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Antoine Marie Jean-Baptiste Roger, vicomte de Saint-Exupery, known simply as Antoine de Saint-Exupery, was a French writer, poet, journalist and aviator. Born in Lyon to an aristocratic family, he trained as a commercial pilot in the early years of his adult life. He was born in 1900 and died in 1944, and he wrote The Little Prince. In the early 1920s he worked airmail routes across Europe, Africa and South America. Between 1926 and 1939 four of his literary works were published: the short story The Aviator, the novels Southern Mail and Night Flight, and the memoir Wind, Sand and Stars. He joined the French Air Force for the Second World War and flew reconnaissance missions until France's armistice with Germany in 1940.