The Little Prince (Le Petit Prince) is a story by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, the most famous of his literary production, published on April 6, 1943 in New York by Reynal & Hitchcock in the English translation (The Little Prince, translated from French by Katherine Woods) and a few days later by Reynal & Hitchcock in the original French. Only in 1945, after the author's death, was it published in France in Paris by Gallimard. The text and drawings were made in various sites in New York, most of them in the Bevin House residence in Asharoken, Long Island. With over 200 million copies sold, it is one of the best-selling books in history.