[TYPO3] Is it possible to select author of a page of of a content element in BE?

[Tadej Bregar]

Hello,
on one of my websites (Typo3 4.0.5, without TemplaVoila) I need to be 
able to select or fill in the author of Pages or better yet Content 
Elements (type: text).
Extension tt_news at least provides a field where I can fill in the name 
and surname of the author. Why don't Content Element have this 
functionality?

To clarify my need, it would be ideal if I could select or fill in the 
name and surname of the author (from BE users) for every "Text" Content 
element, just like I'm able to select the date of every Content Element 
in the "Header" section.
Is it possible to somehow add another field in the Header section (now 
there are: Align, Type, Link, Date), where I could select the author 
from BE users (or just type in some name)?

Would it be easier to provide this field for Pages? The "pages" table in 
the database already has "author" column, but how can I populate this 
field during creation of Content elements or Pages in my Pagetree? 
Manually editing the database tables with phpMyAdmin is definitely not 
an option.

I have found two Extensions that tackle with this problem 
(cron_setdefaultauthor and fhm_author), but both just automatically 
insert currently logged-in BE user in author column of "pages" table 
(well, even this is not quite true - extension cron_setdefaultauthor 
doesn't work at all on my system).

It is very strange to me that Typo3 BE interface doesn't provide a field 
to equip our articles with author name (go open some newspaper or a 
magazine - every serious article has the name of author).

Thanks for any info,
Tadej Bregar