Question: Ivan Bunin and Dan Brown are both writers, who was born first?

Context articles: Loopy Ears
Dry Valley (novel)
The Village (Bunin novel)
The Gentleman from San Francisco
Ivan Bunin
Cursed Days
Dreams (Ivan Bunin)
Dan Brown
Dark Avenues
Meliton (Ivan Bunin)

Loopy Ears (Петлистые уши, "Petli′stye U′shi") is a short story by a Nobel Prize-winning Russian author Ivan Bunin which was written in 1917 and gave his posthumous 1954 collection its title.
 The story was first published in the seventh issue of the "Slovo" anthology (Moscow, 1917) and remains to this day one of the most talked about Bunin's stories, being the first piece of work in the Russian literature featuring a serial killer as the main character.
 Mark Aldanov considered the story as one of the Bunin's best.
Dry Valley (Russian: Суходол , "Sukhodo′l " ) is a short novel by a Nobel Prize-winning Russian author Ivan Bunin, first published in the April 1912 issue of the Saint Petersburg "Vestnik Evropy" magazine.
 Having come out soon after "The Village" (1910), it is usually linked to the latter as the author's second major book concerning the bleak state of Russia as a whole and its rural community in particular.
 It is also regarded as the last in Bunin's early 1900s cycle of "gentry elegies".
The Village (Russian: Деревня , "Derévnya " ) is a short novel by the Nobel Prize-winning Russian author Ivan Bunin, written in 1909 and first published in "Sovremenny Mir" journal (St.-P., ##3, 10–11, 1910) under the title "Novelet" (Повесть ).
 "The Village" caused much controversy at the time, though it was highly praised by Maxim Gorky (who from then on regarded the author as the major figure in Russian literature), among others, and is now generally regarded as Bunin's first masterpiece.
 Composed of brief episodes in the Russian provinces at the time of the 1905 Revolution and set in the author's birthplace, it tells the story of two peasant brothers, one a brute drunk, the other a gentler, more sympathetic character.
 Bunin's realistic portrayal of village life jarred with the idealized picture of "unspoiled" peasants which was common in the mainstream Russian literature, and offended many with characters which "sunk so far below the average of intelligence as to be scarcely human."
The Gentleman from San Francisco (Господин из Сан-Франциско, "Gospodin iz San Frantsisco") is a short story by a Nobel Prize-winning Russian author Ivan Bunin, written in 1915 and published the same year in Moscow, in the 5th volume of "Slovo" (Word) anthology.
 Translated into English by D.H.Lawrence (with Samuil Koteliansky), the story is one of Bunin's best known and regarded as classic.
Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin ( or ; Russian: Ива́н Алексе́евич Бу́нин ; ] ; 22 October [O.S. 10 October] 1870  – 8 November 1953) was the first Russian writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.
 He was noted for the strict artistry with which he carried on the classical Russian traditions in the writing of prose and poetry.
 The texture of his poems and stories, sometimes referred to as "Bunin brocade", is considered to be one of the richest in the language.
Cursed Days (Окаянные дни, "Okayánnye Dni") is a book by a Nobel Prize-winning Russian author Ivan Bunin, compiled of diaries and notes he made while in Moscow and Odessa in 1918-1920.
 Fragments from it were published in 1925-1926 by the Paris-based "Vozrozhdenye" newspaper.
 In its full version "Cursed Days" appeared in the Vol.X of "The Complete Bunin" (1936), compiled and published in Berlin by the Petropolis publishing house.
 In the USSR the book remained banned up until the late 1980s.
 Parts of it were included in the 1988 Moscow edition of "The Complete Bunin" (Vol.
 VI).
 After the collapse of the Soviet Union, "Cursed Days" became immensely popular in its author's homeland.
 Since 1991, no less than fifteen separate editions of Bunin's diary/notebook have been published in Russia.
 The English translation, made by Bunin scholar Thomas Gaiton Marullo, was published (as "Cursed Days.
 A Diary of the Revolution") in 1998 in the United States by Chicago-based Ivan R. Dee Publishers.
"Dreams" (Russian: Сны , "Sny " ) is a novella by a Nobel Prize-winning Russian author Ivan Bunin, written in the late 1903 and first published in the first book of the "Znanie" (Knowledge) Saint Petersburg literary almanach in 1904, where it was coupled with another short novella, "The Golden Bottom" (Золотое дно), under the common title "Black Earth" (Чернозём).
 "Dreams" is generally regarded as the turning point in Bunin's literary career, marking the radical turn towards social issues prior to which he had mostly avoided.
Daniel Gerhard "Dan" Brown (born June 22, 1964) is an American author of thriller fiction, most notably the novels "Angels & Demons" (2000), "The Da Vinci Code" (2003), and "Inferno" (2013).
 Brown's novels are treasure hunts set in a 24-hour period, and feature the recurring themes of cryptography, keys, symbols, codes, and conspiracy theories.
 His books have been translated into 52 languages, and as of 2012, sold over 200 million copies.
 Three of them, "Angels & Demons" (2000), "The Da Vinci Code" (2003), and "Inferno" (2013), have been adapted into films.
Dark Avenues (or Dark Alleys, Russian: Тёмные аллеи , "Tyomnyie alleyi " ) is a collection of short stories by a Nobel Prize-winning Russian author Ivan Bunin written in 1937–1944, mostly in Grasse, France, first eleven stories of which were published in New York City, United States, in 1943.
 The book's full version (27 stories added to the first 11) came out in 1946 in Paris.
 "Dark Alleys", "the only book in the history of Russian literature devoted entirely to the concept of love," is regarded in Russia as Bunin's masterpiece.
 These stories are characterised by dark, erotic liaisons and love affairs that are, according to James B. Woodward, marked by a contradiction that emerges from the interaction of a love that is enamoured in sensory experiences and physicalty, with a love that is a supreme, if ephemeral, "dissolution of the self."
"Meliton" is a novella by a Nobel Prize-winning Russian author Ivan Bunin.
 Dated as "1900-1930" in "The Complete Bunin" (Petropolis, Berlin, 1935; Moscow, 1965), it was first published in the 1901 No.7 (July) issue of Saint Petersburg magazine "Zhurnal Dlya Vsekh" (Journal For Everyone), originally under the title "Skete" (Скит).
 While working upon the "Primal Love" (Начальная любовь) compilation, Bunin changed the story's title into "Meliton" (after its main character's first name).
 In its final version the novella appeared in the July 6, 1930, No.3392 issue of the Paris-based "Poslednye Novosti" newspaper.