'The Moon and Sixpence' is a literary work by -

• William Somerset Maugham is an English Novelist, Playwright and Story writer.
• His famous short stories:
- The Ant and the Grasshopper,
- The Luncheon.
• His famous Novels:
- Of Human Bondage,
- The Sacred Flames,
- The Razor's Edge,
- Cakes and Ale,
- The Musician,
- The Moon and Sixpence,
- Lady Frederick.

- Jane Austen is an English novelist.
- Ernest Hemingway, American novelist and short-story writer, awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954.
- Thomas Kyd is an English dramatist.

Source: Website Lecture and An ABC of English Literature, Britannica