diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index d4a2e5c..431557d 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -7,3 +7,16 @@ venv/
 .pytest_cache/
 **__pycache__/
 **db.sqlite3
+*.log
+*.pyc
+*.pyo
+/static/
+/media/
+.coverage
+htmlcov/
+.venv/
+env/
+.ipynb_checkpoints
+.idea/
+*.iml
+Thumbs.db
diff --git a/author/migrations/0001_initial.py b/author/migrations/0001_initial.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..60ee067
--- /dev/null
+++ b/author/migrations/0001_initial.py
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+# Generated by Django 4.1 on 2024-11-01 14:25
+
+from django.db import migrations, models
+
+
+class Migration(migrations.Migration):
+
+    initial = True
+
+    dependencies = [
+    ]
+
+    operations = [
+        migrations.CreateModel(
+            name='Author',
+            fields=[
+                ('id', models.BigAutoField(auto_created=True, primary_key=True, serialize=False, verbose_name='ID')),
+                ('first_name', models.CharField(max_length=64)),
+                ('last_name', models.CharField(max_length=64)),
+                ('pseudonym', models.CharField(blank=True, max_length=64, null=True)),
+                ('age', models.IntegerField()),
+                ('retired', models.BooleanField()),
+            ],
+        ),
+    ]
diff --git a/author/serializers.py b/author/serializers.py
index d286b95..25b9501 100644
--- a/author/serializers.py
+++ b/author/serializers.py
@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
 from rest_framework import serializers
+from author.models import Author
 
 
 class AuthorSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):
-    # write your code here
-    pass
+    class Meta:
+        model = Author
+        fields = "__all__"
+        read_only_fields = ("id",)
diff --git a/author/urls.py b/author/urls.py
index fa856a3..4547a9f 100644
--- a/author/urls.py
+++ b/author/urls.py
@@ -1,3 +1,19 @@
-# Create your urls here
+from django.urls import path, include
+from rest_framework import routers
+from author.views import AuthorViewSet
 
-urlpatterns = []
+app_name = "author"
+router = routers.DefaultRouter()
+router.register(
+    r"manage",
+    AuthorViewSet,
+    basename="manage"
+)
+
+# Print the URL patterns to debug
+for url_pattern in router.urls:
+    print(url_pattern)
+
+urlpatterns = [
+    path("", include(router.urls)),
+]
diff --git a/author/views.py b/author/views.py
index 608b89d..60e5d89 100644
--- a/author/views.py
+++ b/author/views.py
@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
 from rest_framework import viewsets
 
+from author.models import Author
+from author.serializers import AuthorSerializer
+
 
 class AuthorViewSet(viewsets.ModelViewSet):
-    # write your code here
-    pass
+    queryset = Author.objects.all()
+    serializer_class = AuthorSerializer