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From a master biographer, the life story of the daring French aviator who became one of the twentieth century’s most beloved authors
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry disappeared at age forty-four during a reconnaissance flight over southern France. At the time he was best known for a career of daring flights over the Sahara, the Pyrenees, and Patagonia and for his contributions to the science of aviation. But the solitary hours he spent above the earth in open cockpit airplanes gave birth to a more famous legacy, a series of enchanting, autobiographical novels and the classic story The Little Prince, still the most translated book in the French language.

An impoverished aristocrat from one of France’s oldest families, Saint-Exupéry moved at age twenty-seven to the western Sahara Desert, to live alone in a plank shack and manage the way station for the Aéropostale, the French mail service. His careers as a novelist and an aviator were born here, and his life once he returned to Europe was defined—with brilliant and catastrophic results—by the sense of isolated fascination and curiosity he developed in the desert.

In this definitive biography, Pulitzer Prize winner Stacy Schiff reveals an intrepid and unconventional life that rivals the best adventure stories.

“A remarkable biography; indeed, it is impossible to imagine the job better done. It is balanced, perceptive, thoroughly researched, and exceptionally well-written.” —The New Yorker



About the Author
Stacy Schiff is the author of A Great Improvisation and Vera (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov), which won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for biography. She has received
fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities, and was a Director’s Fellow at the Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. Schiff lives in New York City.


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New York, Buenos Aires, North Africa, Cape Juby, South America, Air France, United States, Yvonne de Lestrange, Louise de Vilmorin, Rio de Oro, Roussy de Sales, Comodoro Rivadavia, Didier Daurat, World War, The Wisdom of the Sands, Central Park South, Courrier Sud, Gaston Gallimard, Tayara Boum-Boum, Elizabeth Reynal, Grand Balcon, Long Island, Anne Lindbergh, Beekman Place, Joseph Kessel
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