diff --git a/bookwyrm/views/author.py b/bookwyrm/views/author.py
index e1e9247d..1265ad68 100644
--- a/bookwyrm/views/author.py
+++ b/bookwyrm/views/author.py
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 """ the good people stuff! the authors! """
 from django.contrib.auth.decorators import login_required, permission_required
-from django.db.models import Q
+from django.core.paginator import Paginator
+from django.db.models import OuterRef, Subquery, F, Q
 from django.shortcuts import get_object_or_404, redirect
 from django.template.response import TemplateResponse
 from django.utils.decorators import method_decorator
@@ -8,7 +9,8 @@ from django.views import View
 
 from bookwyrm import forms, models
 from bookwyrm.activitypub import ActivitypubResponse
-from .helpers import is_api_request
+from bookwyrm.settings import PAGE_LENGTH
+from bookwyrm.views.helpers import is_api_request
 
 
 # pylint: disable= no-self-use
@@ -22,12 +24,26 @@ class Author(View):
         if is_api_request(request):
             return ActivitypubResponse(author.to_activity())
 
-        books = models.Work.objects.filter(
-            Q(authors=author) | Q(editions__authors=author)
-        ).distinct()
+        default_editions = models.Edition.objects.filter(
+            parent_work=OuterRef("parent_work")
+        ).order_by("-edition_rank")
+
+        books = (
+            models.Edition.objects.filter(
+                Q(authors=author) | Q(parent_work__authors=author)
+            )
+            .annotate(default_id=Subquery(default_editions.values("id")[:1]))
+            .filter(default_id=F("id"))
+        )
+
+        paginated = Paginator(books, PAGE_LENGTH)
+        page = paginated.get_page(request.GET.get("page"))
         data = {
             "author": author,
-            "books": [b.default_edition for b in books],
+            "books": page,
+            "page_range": paginated.get_elided_page_range(
+                page.number, on_each_side=2, on_ends=1
+            ),
         }
         return TemplateResponse(request, "author/author.html", data)