diff --git a/feed_test.go b/feed_test.go
index 99f0dd8..2794059 100644
--- a/feed_test.go
+++ b/feed_test.go
@@ -57,6 +57,7 @@ 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
 }