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 1900 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 1917, 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...
