Saint‐Exupéry, Antoine Jean‐Baptiste Marie Roger de
Saint‐Exupéry, Antoine Jean‐Baptiste Marie Roger de (1900–44),French aviator and author of autobiographical novels and metaphysical fantasy. ‘St‐Ex’ was an impoverished aristocrat who had a mystical communion with aviation, the source of his creativity. His sparse, spiritual works all record the transcendence of perspective he experienced while flying over North Africa or being stranded in the desert—events that crystallized for him man's responsibility towards others.
He worked as a mail pilot, negotiated airline routes on two continents, ran rescue missions in the desert, and reported on the Spanish Civil War. While convalescing from various crashes, he wrote aviation novels such as Courrier sud (Southern Mail, 1929) and the prize‐winning Vol de nuit (Night Flight, 1931). Terre des hommes (Wind, Sand and Stars, 1939), winner of the French Academy's prize for Best Novel and...
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