Antoine Saint-Exupéry was born in Lyon, France in 1900. He lost his father when he was four. He went to a Catholic primary school and came to Switzerland for high school, where he began studying the violin. At the age of 21, he was recruited as a mechanic by the French Air Force and later served in the army. The young Saint-Exupéry fell in love with a beautiful girl, but because of the dangerous nature of his job, they did not agree to his proposal, and this sparked the publication of his first book, The Courier of the South, at the age of 29. Of course, he published a collection of short stories called Manon at the age of 25, but it did not receive much attention and was republished in 2007. What made him write was flying. He found a strange connection between two completely different things, piloting and writing. Traveling and getting to know different cultures had expanded his world. At the age of 27, he went to South America on a mission, and when he had more time, he wrote the books Night Flight and The Land of Men, one published in 1931 and the other in 1939. The Earth of Men was considered by the French Academy and won a prize, making him famous. He began writing The Little Prince at the age of 41 and illustrated it with great obsession using watercolors and pencils. By the end of his life, he had written a total of thirteen books, the masterpiece of which was The Little Prince. At the age of 44, when he flew in an army reconnaissance plane, he crashed in the Mediterranean and said goodbye to life. He was a fearless and patriotic pilot and an anti-fascist fighter. He used all his experiences as inspiration for his novels and poetic stories.