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Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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Full Name: Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Born: June 29, 1900
Lyon, France
Died: July 31, 1944
Offshore, south of Marseille, France
Occupation: Aviator, Writer
Nationality: French
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Biography

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, the "Winged Poet," was born in Lyon, France, in 1900. He took his first flight at the age of eleven, and became a pilot at twenty-six. He was a pioneer of commercial aviation and flew in the Spanish Civil War and World War II. His writings include The Little Prince, Wind, Sand and Stars, Night Flight, Southern Mail, and Airman's Odyssey. In 1944, while serving with a French air squadron, he disappeared during a flight over the Mediterranean.


Works in the WWEnd Database

 Non Series Works

 (1943)