diff --git a/extensions/extensions.go b/extensions/extensions.go
index 53021db8..eef62999 100644
--- a/extensions/extensions.go
+++ b/extensions/extensions.go
@@ -15,6 +15,10 @@ type Extension struct {
 	Parsed   interface{}            `json:"parsed,omitempty"`
 }
 
+type Extendable interface {
+	GetExtensions() Extensions
+}
+
 func parseTextExtension(name string, extensions map[string][]Extension) (value string) {
 	if extensions == nil {
 		return
diff --git a/rss/feed.go b/rss/feed.go
index 5366a4ef..89e8aa20 100644
--- a/rss/feed.go
+++ b/rss/feed.go
@@ -37,6 +37,10 @@ type Feed struct {
 	Version             string                   `json:"version"`
 }
 
+func (f Feed) GetExtensions() ext.Extensions {
+	return f.Extensions
+}
+
 func (f Feed) String() string {
 	json, _ := json.MarshalIndent(f, "", "    ")
 	return string(json)
@@ -61,6 +65,10 @@ type Item struct {
 	Extensions    ext.Extensions           `json:"extensions,omitempty"`
 }
 
+func (i Item) GetExtensions() ext.Extensions {
+	return i.Extensions
+}
+
 // Image is an image that represents the feed
 type Image struct {
 	URL         string `json:"url,omitempty"`
diff --git a/translator.go b/translator.go
index 3d3569eb..6e9b8fb1 100644
--- a/translator.go
+++ b/translator.go
@@ -24,7 +24,9 @@ type Translator interface {
 // This default implementation defines a set of
 // mapping rules between rss.Feed -> Feed
 // for each of the fields in Feed.
-type DefaultRSSTranslator struct{}
+type DefaultRSSTranslator struct{
+	atomTranslator DefaultAtomTranslator
+}
 
 // Translate converts an RSS feed into the universal
 // feed type.
@@ -323,6 +325,8 @@ func (t *DefaultRSSTranslator) translateItemAuthor(rssItem *rss.Item) (author *P
 		author = &Person{}
 		author.Name = name
 		author.Email = address
+	} else if authorVal, ok := t.hasAtomExtensionsForKey(rssItem, "author"); ok {
+		author = t.atomTranslator.translateItemAuthor(authorVal)
 	} else if rssItem.DublinCoreExt != nil && rssItem.DublinCoreExt.Author != nil {
 		dcAuthor := t.firstEntry(rssItem.DublinCoreExt.Author)
 		name, address := shared.ParseNameAddress(dcAuthor)
@@ -413,8 +417,8 @@ func (t *DefaultRSSTranslator) extensionsForKeys(keys []string, extensions ext.E
 	return
 }
 
-func (t *DefaultRSSTranslator) atomExtensionsWithKey(rss *rss.Feed, tag string, f func(ext.Extension) bool) {
-	atomExtensions := t.extensionsForKeys([]string{"atom", "atom10", "atom03"}, rss.Extensions)
+func (t *DefaultRSSTranslator) atomExtensionsWithKey(rss ext.Extendable, tag string, f func(ext.Extension) bool) {
+	atomExtensions := t.extensionsForKeys([]string{"atom", "atom10", "atom03"}, rss.GetExtensions())
 	for _, ex := range atomExtensions {
 		if exts, ok := ex[tag]; ok {
 			for _, e := range exts {
@@ -426,6 +430,16 @@ func (t *DefaultRSSTranslator) atomExtensionsWithKey(rss *rss.Feed, tag string,
 	}
 }
 
+func (t *DefaultRSSTranslator) hasAtomExtensionsForKey(rss ext.Extendable, tag string) (entry *atom.Entry, ok bool) {
+	t.atomExtensionsWithKey(rss, tag, func(extension ext.Extension) bool {
+		if extension.Parsed != nil {
+			entry, ok = extension.Parsed.(*atom.Entry)
+		}
+		return ok
+	})
+	return
+}
+
 func (t *DefaultRSSTranslator) firstEntry(entries []string) (value string) {
 	if entries == nil {
 		return