diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 50ffa4fd..7aa36ec9 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@
 edition = "2021"
 name = "bzip2"
 version = "0.5.0"
-authors = ["Alex Crichton <alex@alexcrichton.com>"]
 license = "MIT/Apache-2.0"
 readme = "README.md"
 keywords = ["bzip", "encoding"]