The AUTHOR paragraph is for documentation only.

  Format -

   AUTHOR. [comment-entry] ...

1  –  comment-entry

  Comment-entry can consist of any combination of characters from the
  computer character set.  Comment-entries can span several lines in
  Area B.  However, they cannot be continued by using a hyphen in the
  indicator area.  The end of comment-entry is the line before the next
  entry in Area A.