Eudora Alice Welty (April 13, 1909 – July 23, 2001) was an American short story writer and novelist who wrote about the American South.
 Her novel "The Optimist's Daughter" won the Pulitzer Prize in 1973.
 Welty was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, among numerous awards including the Order of the South.
 She was the first living author to have her works published by the Library of America.
 Her house in Jackson, Mississippi has been designated as a National Historic Landmark and is open to the public as a house museum.
A Curtain of Green was the first collection of short stories written by Eudora Welty.
 In these stories, Welty looks at the state of Mississippi through the eyes of its inhabitants, the common people, both black and white, and presents a realistic view of the racial relations that existed at the time.
 Welty, though, looks past race, not overtly focusing on the subject, and sees Mississippi as what it is.
 The stories subtly combine myth and reality to create portraits of odd, but undeniable, beauty.
 One of the finest pieces in the collection is titled "A Worn Path."
 Welty's skill as a writer perhaps reaches its finest point with this story of an aging woman who faces her greatest obstacle, the journey of life as she tries to cope with the grief from the death of her grandson she goes through a journey comparable to a Greek epic.
 Full of challenges that she had to overcome while still keeping her dignity.
 Welty writes "A Worn Path" to show the reader that even though they aren't an epic hero they can still have dignity in their life.
The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty is a collection of short stories by Eudora Welty, first published by Houghton Mifflin in 1980.
 Its first paperback edition (Harvest Books) won a 1983 U.S. National Book Award.
The Eudora Welty House at 1119 Pinehurst Street in Jackson, Mississippi was the home of author Eudora Welty for nearly 80 years.
 It was built by her parents in 1925.
 In it she did all her writing, in an upstairs bedroom.
 Welty created the garden over decades.
 The house was first declared a Mississippi Landmark in 2001, added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2002, and declared a National Historic Landmark in 2004.
 This was part of a raised awareness of the significance of authors and literary life in the United States.
The Golden Apples is a short story collection with seven stories written by Eudora Welty, first published in 1949.
 The stories form an interrelated cycle, which explores the economic and social plight of the fictional Morgana Mississippi.
 The stories use shared themes and other literary devices to ensure that the stories operate as a unified whole.
 One reviewer noted that "Allusion and metaphor hang as thick as Spanish moss in Welty's prose."
Walker Percy, Obl.S.B.
 (May 28, 1916 – May 10, 1990) was an American author from Covington, Louisiana, whose interests included philosophy and semiotics.
 Percy is known for his philosophical novels set in and around New Orleans, Louisiana, the first of which, "The Moviegoer", won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction.
 He devoted his literary life to the exploration of "the dislocation of man in the modern age."
 His work displays a combination of existential questioning, Southern sensibility, and deep Catholic faith.
In natural language processing, open information extraction (OIE) is the task of generating a structured, machine-readable representation of the information in text, usually in the form of triples or n-ary propositions.
 A proposition can be understood as truth-bearer, a textual expression of a potential fact (e.g., "Dante wrote the Divine Comedy"), represented in an amenable structure for computers [e.g., ("Dante", "wrote", "Divine Comedy")].
 An OIE extraction normally consists of a relation and a set of arguments.
 For instance, ("Dante", "passed away in" "Ravenna") is a proposition formed by the relation "passed away in" and the arguments "Dante" and "Ravenna".
 The first argument is usually referred as the subject while the second is considered to be the object.
The Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters (MIAL) is a privately funded foundation created to recognize annually the greatest accomplishments in art, music, literature, and photography among Mississippians.
 The idea was conceived by, among others, former Mississippi Governor William Winter, Dr. Cora Norman, Dr. Aubrey Lucas, and Dr. Noel Polk in 1978, and the first awards were given out in 1980.
 Nominations for these awards may be made only by registered members of the Institute.
 The winners are chosen by a jury of prominent academics in each of the seven fields: Fiction, Non-fiction, Visual Art, Concert Musical Composition, Popular Musical Composition, Photography, and Poetry.
 The ceremony is held in a different Mississippi city each year.
 Past winners have included Walker Percy, Ellen Douglas, Ellen Gilchrist, Richard Ford, Larry Brown, Rick Bass, Lewis Nordan, Beverly Lowry, Donna Tartt, Clifton Taulbert, Barry Hannah, Willie Morris, Leontyne Price, Cynthia Shearer, Stephen Ambrose, Steve Yarbrough, Tom Franklin, Brad Watson, Shelby Foote, Natasha Trethewey, Birney Imes, Maude Schyler Clay, William Grant Still, Morgan Freeman, Christopher Maurer, Wyatt Waters, Logan Skelton, and many others.
 Lifetime achievement awards have been presented to artists such as Gulf Coast painter and potter Walter Anderson, Jackson writer Eudora Welty, and the distinguished film actor from the Delta, Morgan Freeman.
"Why I Live at the P.O." is a short story written by Eudora Welty, American writer and photographer.
 It was published in her collection of stories named "A Curtain of Green" (1941).
 The work was inspired by a photograph taken by Welty that depicts a woman ironing at the back of a post office.
 The story is classified as an example of Southern realism.
 "Why I Live at the P.O." is one of Welty's most popular and frequently anthologized stories.
Losing Battles is the last novel written by Eudora Welty.
 It was released on April 13, 1970.
 The novel's setting is two days—a Sunday and Monday morning—in a 1930s farm in Mississippi.
 "Losing Battles" was her first novel to make the best seller lists, to the surprise of Welty.

Question: Who passed away first, Eudora Welty or Walker Percy ?
Answer: Walker Percy