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Antoine de Saint-Exupery was an aviator, writer, and poet who was born June 29, 1900 in Lyon, France. He died 44 years later on the 31st of July 1944. Antoine began his career as a young man began in the French Army but was later offered a transfer to the French Airforce. In 1926 Antoine was working in Airmail Services for Aéropostal, an aviation company. Three years later he was transferred again, this time to Argentina to be appointed the director of Aeroposta Argentina Airlines (a pioneering airline for airmail). With his background as an aviator, Antoine was able to begin a new chapter as an author using his experiences in his writing. He soon made his presence known in the literary world with his first publication in 1929. Antoine used his background on lyrical aviation writings, including Wind, Sand and Stars and Night Flight.

In 1942, Antoine wrote his most famous works, The Little Prince. The book was written in New York City after Antoine was persuaded by the wife of his U.S publisher to write a children's book. The book is about a pilot being stranded in the desert for eight days after his plane crashed. He soon meets a Prince tells the man the story of his life. Ironically, though Antoine was writing an upbeat children's book, he was actually going through a dark and stressful time in his life with his health, marriage and excessive amounts of stress. So the whole basic reasoning of Antoine writing The Little Prince was because his publisher’s wife said it would help him through his rough patch.

Antoine returned to war in 1943 to fight with the allies. He disappeared on a reconnaissance flight over the Mediterranean and France in July 1944 and is believed to have died at that time.