At a glance
- Age
- 44
- Born
- June 29, 1900
- From
- 2nd arrondissement of Lyon
- Nationality
- France
Biography
The quotes that circulate under his name come from someone who did two things at once: he flew aircraft, and he wrote. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry worked as a pilot and a novelist, and also as a poet and a journalist — a combination that explains why his lines tend to sound like they were arrived at in the air rather than at a desk.
He was born on 29 June 1900 in the 2nd arrondissement of Lyon, into a titled family; his full name was Antoine Marie Jean-Baptiste Roger, vicomte de Saint-Exupéry, though he has always been known by the shortened form. He died on 31 July 1944, aged forty-four.
The flying and the writing were not separate careers running in parallel so much as one feeding the other, and that is the reason readers still reach for him: the observations came from a man who was actually doing the thing he described. His work is maintained online at antoinedesaintexupery.com.
He was born on 29 June 1900 in the 2nd arrondissement of Lyon, into a titled family; his full name was Antoine Marie Jean-Baptiste Roger, vicomte de Saint-Exupéry, though he has always been known by the shortened form. He died on 31 July 1944, aged forty-four.
The flying and the writing were not separate careers running in parallel so much as one feeding the other, and that is the reason readers still reach for him: the observations came from a man who was actually doing the thing he described. His work is maintained online at antoinedesaintexupery.com.
