diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index bea68953..e66fd447 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 *.pyc
 goose.egg-info/
 build/
+author.py
 dist/
 .DS_Store*
 ._.DS_Store*
diff --git a/goose/article.py b/goose/article.py
index d195f166..2f916a10 100644
--- a/goose/article.py
+++ b/goose/article.py
@@ -28,6 +28,9 @@ def __init__(self):
         # title of the article
         self.title = None
 
+        #Author of the Article
+        self.author = None
+
         # stores the lovely, pure text from the article,
         # stripped of html, formatting, etc...
         # just raw text with paragraphs separated by newlines.
diff --git a/goose/crawler.py b/goose/crawler.py
index 211d410e..68ffd594 100644
--- a/goose/crawler.py
+++ b/goose/crawler.py
@@ -99,6 +99,7 @@ def crawl(self, crawl_candidate):
         # self.article.publish_date = config.publishDateExtractor.extract(doc)
         # self.article.additional_data = config.get_additionaldata_extractor.extract(doc)
         self.article.title = self.extractor.get_title()
+        self.article.author = self.extractor.get_author()        
         self.article.meta_lang = self.extractor.get_meta_lang()
         self.article.meta_favicon = self.extractor.get_favicon()
         self.article.meta_description = self.extractor.get_meta_description()
diff --git a/goose/extractors.py b/goose/extractors.py
index 1c8a37f1..2999cd16 100644
--- a/goose/extractors.py
+++ b/goose/extractors.py
@@ -59,6 +59,49 @@ def __init__(self, config, article):
         # stopwords class
         self.stopwords_class = config.stopwords_class
 
+    def get_author(self):
+        import re
+        author = ''
+        doc = self.article.doc
+
+        #Look at meta tags first
+        author = self.get_meta_author()
+
+        if (author != None) & (author != ''):
+            return author
+
+        author_element = self.parser.getElementsByTag(doc, tag='a' , attr = 'href')
+        
+        # no author found
+        if author_element is None or len(author_element) == 0:
+            return author
+
+        for a in author_element:
+            a_href = self.parser.getAttribute(a,'href')
+            if a_href is not None:
+                #find url that has author, people or users
+                if re.search('.author.', a_href) is not None:
+                    author = self.clean_author(a_href)
+                    break
+                elif re.search('.people.', a_href) is not None:
+                    author = self.clean_author(a_href)
+                elif re.search('.users.', a_href) is not None:
+                    author = self.clean_author(a_href)
+        return author
+
+    def clean_author(self,a_href):
+        author_parts  = a_href.split('/')
+        
+        for a_p in author_parts:
+            a = author_parts.pop()
+            if a != '':
+                author = a
+                break
+        
+        author = author.replace('-' , ' ').title()
+        
+        return author
+
     def get_title(self):
         """\
         Fetch the article title and analyze it
@@ -178,6 +221,12 @@ def get_meta_description(self):
         """
         return self.get_meta_content(self.article.doc, "meta[name=description]")
 
+    def get_meta_author(self):
+        """\
+        if the article has meta Author set in the source, use that
+        """
+        return self.get_meta_content(self.article.doc, "meta[name=Author]")
+
     def get_meta_keywords(self):
         """\
         if the article has meta keywords set in the source, use that