P0 saint exupery biography

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry may not be a household name in America, but his most famous work, The Little Prince, certainly is. As for France, Saint-Exupéry is beloved by readers of all ages and famed for his other works as well.

Saint-Exupéry was born in Lyon, France in to a wealthy family.

His father died when he was young and his mother took him and his four siblings to a family chateau in Le Mans. He was educated at Catholic schools but was sent away for a time due to WWI. Returning to France in , he enrolled in a college prep school in Paris and then tried to enter the naval academy; his poor test skills hampered this, though, and he studied architecture at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts.

From a young age, he loved flying and received his pilot's wings during compulsory military service in

Saint-Exupéry nurtured his love of flying at the same time as his love of writing.

He published “The Aviator” in That year he also began flying as a mail pilot for a company in Toulouse. In , he