Selects an author from the Penguin Classics collection, based on the supplied unique author id. The returned author information will contain a list of books that the author is responsible for, with associated links to the book in the Penguin Classics collection.

Example of viewing an author

curl http://api.pearson.com/penguin/classics/v1/authors/32dFj5fS3ba42Y?apikey=my_api_key

{
    "status": 200,
    "dataset": "black_classics_sb",
    "url": "https://api.pearson.com/penguin/classics/v1/authors/32dFj5fS3ba42Y?apikey=my_api_key",
    "author": {
        "id": "32dFj5fS3ba42Y",
        "full_name": "Anne Brontë",
        "url": "https://api.pearson.com/penguin/classics/v1/authors/32dFj5fS3ba42Y?apikey=my_api_key",
        "book_count": 2,
        "books": [
            {
                "title": "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall",
                "isbn": "9780141974422",
                "publisher": {
                    "name": "Penguin Books Ltd"
                },
                "url": "https://api.pearson.com/penguin/classics/v1/books/32PPQpVJEak5y6?apikey=my_api_key"
            },
            {
                "title": "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall",
                "isbn": "9780141974422",
                "publisher": {
                    "name": "Penguin Books Ltd"
                },
                "url": "https://api.pearson.com/penguin/classics/v1/books/e29XXN1MPRct8n?apikey=my_api_key"
            }
        ]
    }
}