diff --git a/Doc/conf.py b/Doc/conf.py
index 84458ff0be9..6e4988e5931 100644
--- a/Doc/conf.py
+++ b/Doc/conf.py
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ latex_font_size = '10pt'
 
 # Grouping the document tree into LaTeX files. List of tuples
 # (source start file, target name, title, author, document class [howto/manual]).
-_stdauthor = r'Guido van Rossum\\Fred L. Drake, Jr., editor'
+_stdauthor = r'Guido van Rossum\\and the Python development team'
 latex_documents = [
     ('c-api/index', 'c-api.tex',
      'The Python/C API', _stdauthor, 'manual'),