Question: Which award-winning author was born first, Flannery O'Connor or Alice Munro?
Context: Eleanor Wachtel {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (born 1947 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian writer and broadcaster.  She is the host of the flagship literary show "Writers & Company" on CBC Radio One, which celebrated its 25th anniversary in October 2015.  Her interviews for "Writers & Company" are in-depth portraits of literary figures which over the years have included Saul Bellow, Alice Munro, Michael Ondaatje and Mordecai Richler.  Kazuo Ishiguro, author of "Remains of the Day", has called Wachtel "one of the very finest interviewers of authors I've come across anywhere in the world."  At the end of their conversation in 2013, John le Carré told her, "You do it better than anyone I know." Alice Ann Munro ( , "née" Laidlaw ; born 10 July 1931) is a Canadian short story writer and Nobel Prize winner.  Munro's work has been described as having revolutionized the architecture of short stories, especially in its tendency to move forward and backward in time.  Her stories have been said to "embed more than announce, reveal more than parade." "How I Met My Husband" is a short story written by Alice Munro, first published in 1974 as a part of her collection "Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You". The View from Castle Rock is a book of short stories by Canadian author Alice Munro, recipient of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature, which was published in 2006 by McClelland and Stewart. Ernest Buckler, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (19 July 1908 – 4 March 1984) was a Canadian novel writer and short story writer best known for his 1952 novel, "The Mountain and the Valley" and the short story "The first born Son".  "Since its publication in 1954, Ernest Buckler's story of David Canaan's life in the Annapolis Valley, "The Mountain and the Valley", has gradually established itself as a touchstone of Canadian Modernism.  Its continuing presence in Canadian Literature courses and its effect on such writers as Margaret Laurence and Alice Munro attest to its power as a novel exploring imaginative experience."  (Van Rys 1995) Lives of Girls and Women is a short story cycle by Nobel Prize–winning author Alice Munro, published by McGraw-Hill Ryerson in 1971.  All of the stories chronicle the life of a single character, Del Jordan, and the book has been characterized as a novel by some critics as a result. Runaway is a book of short stories by Alice Munro.  First published in 2004 by McClelland and Stewart, it was awarded that year's Giller Prize and Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. <ref name="writerstrust.com/RogersFiction"> </ref> Mary Flannery O'Connor (March 25, 1925August 3, 1964) was an American writer and essayist.  She wrote two novels and thirty-two short stories, as well as a number of reviews and commentaries.  She was a Southern writer who often wrote in a Southern Gothic style and relied heavily on regional settings and grotesque characters.  Her writing also reflected her Roman Catholic faith and frequently examined questions of morality and ethics.  Her posthumously compiled "Complete Stories" won the 1972 U.S. National Book Award for Fiction and has been the subject of enduring praise. Dance of the Happy Shades (ISBN  ) is a book of short stories by Alice Munro, published by Ryerson Press in 1968.  It was her first collection of stories and won the 1968 Governor General's Award for English Fiction.  The title of the main story is the English translation provided for the ballet in Gluck's "Orfeo ed Euridice" when it was first presented in London. Vintage Munro is a 2004 book of short stories by Alice Munro published by Vintage Books.  It collects five stories published previously in earlier books.
Answer: Flannery O'Connor