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| 1900 |
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry is born on June 29 in Lyons, France. |
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| 1932 |
Night Flight, which won the Prix Femina in 1931, appears in the United States. |
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| 1933 |
Southern Mail is published by Reynal & Hitchcock in the United States. |
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| 1938 |
Saint-Exupéry crashes his monoplane in Guatemala, sustaining injuries from which he never fully recovers. |
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| 1939 |
Wind, Sand and Stars is published in June and is a critical and commercial success. It is a selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club and wins the Grand Prix of the French Academy. Saint-Exupéry goes to war for France.
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| 1941 |
Due to the fall of France in World War 11, Saint-Exupéry's air squadron is demobilized and he moves to New York. He writes Flight to Arras, a novel about his experiences fighting in the early part of the war. |
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| 1942 |
Flight to Arras appears in the United States-selling for $2.50-to front-page acclaim as a "new prose epic." The book is a spectacular success-its entire initial print run sells out on the first day of release. |
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| 1943 |
The Little Prince and Le Petit Prince are published in the United States on April 6. Airman's Odyssey, a collection of three of the aviator's books, also appears. Meanwhile, Saint-Exupéry rejoins his old air squadron in North Africa. |
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| 1944 |
Saint-Exupéry vanishes on July 3rd. He is last seen over the Mediterranean in his Lockheed P-38 returning from a reconnaissance mission, with a German fighter plane in swift pursuit. He is generally assumed dead, although neither his body nor his plane is ever found. |
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| 1948 |
After Curtice Hitchcock dies, Eugene Reynal merges their publishing firm and catalog of books into Harcourt Brace. |
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| 1950 |
The Wisdom of the Sands is published in the United States by Harcourt Brace. 1986 Harcourt Brace publishes Wartime Writings. |
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| 2000 |
Harcourt publishes a new translation of The Little Prince, with restored original art, in celebration of the 100th anniversary of Saint-Exupéry's birth. |
