Biographie d'Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry was born in Lyons in 1900 and first learned to fly at the age of twelve. He was an adventurer and pioneer in aviation and among other exploits he was once forced to crash-land in the Egyptian desert and was not found until five days later. Saint-Exupéry was awarded the Prix Femina for Night Flight (1931) which was followed by Wind, Sand and Stars in 1939. The Little Prince, which he wrote and illustrated, was published in 1943, the same year as Letter to a Hostage. In July of 1944 Saint-Exupéry disappeared on a flight from Corsica to France and is thought to have been shot down by German reconnaissance planes.