diff --git a/Doc/tools/sgmlconv/docfixer.py b/Doc/tools/sgmlconv/docfixer.py
index 25b8f4275b2..463276b0676 100755
--- a/Doc/tools/sgmlconv/docfixer.py
+++ b/Doc/tools/sgmlconv/docfixer.py
@@ -619,7 +619,7 @@ def move_elements_by_name(doc, source, dest, name, sep=None):
     )
 
 PARA_LEVEL_PRECEEDERS = (
-    "setindexsubitem",
+    "setindexsubitem", "author",
     "stindex", "obindex", "COMMENT", "label", "input", "title",
     "versionadded", "versionchanged", "declaremodule", "modulesynopsis",
     "moduleauthor", "indexterm", "leader",