Ramón María del Valle-Inclán y de la Peña (in Vilanova de Arousa, Galicia, Spain, 28 October 1866 – Santiago de Compostela, 5 January 1936) was a Spanish dramatist, novelist and member of the Spanish Generation of 98.
 He is considered perhaps the most noteworthy and certainly the most radical dramatist working to subvert the traditionalism of the Spanish theatrical establishment in the early part of the 20th century.
 His drama is made all the more important by its influence on later generations of Spanish dramatists.
Bohemian Lights, or "Luces de Bohemia" in the original Spanish, is a play written by Ramón del Valle-Inclán, published in 1924.
 The central character is Max Estrella, a struggling poet afflicted by blindness.
 The play is a degenerated tragedy ("esperpento") focusing on the troubles of the literary and artistic world in Spain under the Restoration.
 Through Max's poverty, ill fortune and eventual death, Valle-Inclán portrays how society neglects the creative.
Allegra Goodman (born 1967) is an American author based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
 Her most recent novel, "The Chalk Artist", was published in 2017.
 Goodman wrote and illustrated her first novel at the age of seven.
Intuition is a 2006 critically acclaimed novel written by Allegra Goodman.
 The plot centers on the happenings at the Philpott Institute, a cancer research lab in desperate need of funding.
 Controversy engulfs the lab when Cliff Bannaker, a youthful postdoc student, appears to fabricate results to an experiment.
Esperpento denotes a literary style in Spanish literature first established by Spanish author Ramón María del Valle-Inclán that uses distorted descriptions of reality in order to criticize society.
 Leading themes include death, the grotesque, and the reduction of human beings to objects (reification).
 The style is marked by bitter irony.
 In Latin America, the author most well known for using esperpento is Mexican author Jorge Ibargüengoitia.
The Family Markowitz is a 1996 novel, made up of a series of linked short stories written by Allegra Goodman.
Divinas palabras (English: "Divine Words") is a 1977 Mexican film directed by Juan Ibáñez and starring Silvia Pinal and Mario Almada.
 The film is based on the play of the same name by Spanish author Ramón del Valle-Inclán.
Kaaterskill Falls is a 1998 novel by Allegra Goodman, set in a small Catskill Mountains, New York, USA, community of predominantly Orthodox Jews during summers in the mid-1970s.
 The location is based on the town of Tannersville, NY where Goodman spent summers with her family.
 Like its fictional counterpart, Tannersville at the time was a summer home for the German Jews of Washington Heights, Manhattan.
El marqués de Bradomín.
 Coloquios románticos (The Marquis of Bradomin.
 Romantic meetings), is a play by the Spanish writer Ramón del Valle-Inclán.
 It was first performed in 1906.
The Premio Valle-Inclán is a literary translation prize.
 It is awarded by the Society of Authors (London) for the best English translation of a work of Spanish literature.
 It is named after Ramón del Valle-Inclán.
 The prize money is GBP 2000.

Question: Which writer was born second, Ramón del Valle-Inclán or Allegra Goodman?
Answer: Allegra Goodman