diff --git a/feed_test.go b/feed_test.go
index 99f0dd8..607d008 100644
--- a/feed_test.go
+++ b/feed_test.go
@@ -5,8 +5,7 @@ import (
 	"time"
 )
 
-var atomOutput = `<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">
+var atomOutput = `<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">
   <title>jmoiron.net blog</title>
   <id>http://jmoiron.net/blog</id>
   <updated>2013-01-16T21:52:35-05:00</updated>
@@ -44,8 +43,7 @@ var atomOutput = `<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
   </entry>
 </feed>`
 
-var rssOutput = `<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<rss version="2.0">
+var rssOutput = `<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0">
   <channel>
     <title>jmoiron.net blog</title>
     <link>http://jmoiron.net/blog</link>
@@ -57,6 +55,7 @@ var rssOutput = `<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
       <title>Limiting Concurrency in Go</title>
       <link>http://jmoiron.net/blog/limiting-concurrency-in-go/</link>
       <description>A discussion on controlled parallelism in golang</description>
+      <author>Jason Moiron</author>
       <pubDate>2013-01-16T21:52:35-05:00</pubDate>
     </item>
     <item>
diff --git a/rss.go b/rss.go
index 651258f..2c8796f 100644
--- a/rss.go
+++ b/rss.go
@@ -92,6 +92,9 @@ func newRssItem(i *Item) *RssItem {
 		Guid:        i.Id,
 		PubDate:     anyTimeFormat(time.RFC3339, i.Created, i.Updated),
 	}
+	if i.Author != nil {
+		item.Author = i.Author.Name
+	}
 	return item
 }