diff --git a/examples/19_auto_authors.rs b/examples/19_auto_authors.rs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..d616dd53137
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/19_auto_authors.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+#[macro_use]
+extern crate clap;
+
+use clap::App;
+
+#[cfg(feature = "unstable")]
+fn main() {
+    App::new("myapp")
+        .about("does awesome things")
+       // use crate_authors! to pull the author(s) names from the Cargo.toml
+       .author(crate_authors!())
+       .get_matches();
+
+    // running the this app with the -h will display whatever author(s) are in your
+    // Cargo.toml
+}
+
+#[cfg(not(feature = "unstable"))]
+fn main() {
+    // if clap is not compiled with the unstable feature, it is disabled.
+    println!("unstable feature disabled.");
+    println!("Pass --features unstable to cargo when trying this example.");
+}
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diff --git a/src/app/mod.rs b/src/app/mod.rs
index 17ff3d5f544..2ba232c9836 100644
--- a/src/app/mod.rs
+++ b/src/app/mod.rs
@@ -110,9 +110,15 @@ impl<'a, 'b> App<'a, 'b> {
         App::from(yaml)
     }
 
-    /// Sets a string of author(s) that will be displayed to the user when they request the help
-    /// information with `--help` or `-h`.
+    /// Sets a string of author(s) that will be displayed to the user when they 
+    /// request the help information with `--help` or `-h`.
     ///
+    /// **Pro-tip:** If you turn on unstable features you can use `clap`s 
+    /// convienience macro `crate_authors!` to automatically set your
+    /// application's author to the same thing as your crate at compile time. 
+    /// See the `examples/`
+    /// directory for more information
+    ///    
     /// # Examples
     ///
     /// ```no_run
diff --git a/src/macros.rs b/src/macros.rs
index f7d505059e3..781cd5d84c0 100644
--- a/src/macros.rs
+++ b/src/macros.rs
@@ -350,7 +350,7 @@ macro_rules! arg_enum {
     };
 }
 
-/// Allows you pull the version for an from your Cargo.toml at compile time as
+/// Allows you pull the version from your Cargo.toml at compile time as
 /// MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH_PKGVERSION_PRE
 ///
 /// # Examples
@@ -372,6 +372,28 @@ macro_rules! crate_version {
     };
 }
 
+/// Allows you pull the authors for the app from your Cargo.toml at compile time as 
+/// "author1 lastname. <author1@gmail.com>", "author2 lastname. <author1@gmail.com>"
+///
+/// # Examples
+///
+/// ```no_run
+/// # #[macro_use]
+/// # extern crate clap;
+/// # use clap::App;
+/// # fn main() {
+///     let m = App::new("app")
+///                 .author(crate_authors!())
+///                 .get_matches();
+/// # }
+/// ```
+#[cfg_attr(feature = "unstable", macro_export)]
+macro_rules! crate_authors {
+    () => {
+        env!("CARGO_PKG_AUTHORS")
+    };
+}
+
 /// App, Arg, SubCommand and Group builder macro (Usage-string like input) must be compiled with
 /// the `unstable` feature in order to use.
 #[cfg_attr(feature = "unstable", macro_export)]