diff --git a/djangoldp/tests/models.py b/djangoldp/tests/models.py
index e576eadb04959bfd632e5e0a075e0a5bf1d562d7..502e3cdcf4bb795699e4525353d53a998bf3a4fa 100644
--- a/djangoldp/tests/models.py
+++ b/djangoldp/tests/models.py
@@ -68,3 +68,11 @@ class Task(models.Model):
 
     class Meta:
         serializer_fields = ['@id', 'title', 'batch']
+
+
+class Post(Model):
+    content = models.CharField(max_length=255)
+    author = models.ForeignKey(settings.AUTH_USER_MODEL, blank=True, null=True)
+
+    class Meta:
+        auto_author = 'author'
diff --git a/djangoldp/tests/runner.py b/djangoldp/tests/runner.py
index 2d3f2e433db6d47c54426ebbcc944bd01286123b..6a54bedcc61fc29b1f2ad4b65ea7fb08e5ce0c9b 100644
--- a/djangoldp/tests/runner.py
+++ b/djangoldp/tests/runner.py
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ settings.configure(DEBUG=True,
                            'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
                        }
                    },
+                   LDP_RDF_CONTEXT = 'https://cdn.happy-dev.fr/owl/hdcontext.jsonld',
                    ROOT_URLCONF='djangoldp.tests.urls',
                    DJANGOLDP_PACKAGES=['djangoldp.tests'],
                    INSTALLED_APPS=('django.contrib.auth',
@@ -31,6 +32,7 @@ failures = test_runner.run_tests([
     'djangoldp.tests.tests_user_permissions',
     'djangoldp.tests.tests_anonymous_permissions',
     'djangoldp.tests.tests_update',
+    'djangoldp.tests.tests_auto_author',
 ])
 if failures:
     sys.exit(failures)
diff --git a/djangoldp/tests/tests_anonymous_permissions.py b/djangoldp/tests/tests_anonymous_permissions.py
index 79db62f3b40f18e55ac48f2d74b7ad2bfa06115d..f1ace746ec4e04039ec774f329ba300f90b5c1e0 100644
--- a/djangoldp/tests/tests_anonymous_permissions.py
+++ b/djangoldp/tests/tests_anonymous_permissions.py
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ from djangoldp.views import LDPViewSet
 
 import json
 
+
 class TestAnonymousUserPermissions(TestCase):
     def setUp(self):
         self.factory = APIRequestFactory()
@@ -49,4 +50,4 @@ class TestAnonymousUserPermissions(TestCase):
                                      nested_fields=["skills"],
                                      permission_classes=[AnonymousReadOnly])
         response = my_view(request, pk=self.job.pk)
-        self.assertEqual(response.status_code, 403)
\ No newline at end of file
+        self.assertEqual(response.status_code, 403)
diff --git a/djangoldp/tests/tests_auto_author.py b/djangoldp/tests/tests_auto_author.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d2d1064e80b0aabb03335e6193301e74efab6eda
--- /dev/null
+++ b/djangoldp/tests/tests_auto_author.py
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+import json
+
+from django.contrib.auth.models import User
+from rest_framework.test import APIRequestFactory, APIClient, APITestCase
+
+
+class TestAutoAuthor(APITestCase):
+
+    def setUp(self):
+        self.factory = APIRequestFactory()
+        self.client = APIClient()
+        self.user = User.objects.create_user(username='john', email='jlennon@beatles.com', password='glass onion')
+
+    def tearDown(self):
+        self.user.delete()
+
+    def test_save_with_anonymous_user(self):
+        post = {
+            '@context': "http://owl.openinitiative.com/oicontext.jsonld",
+            '@graph': [{'http://happy-dev.fr/owl/#content': "post content"}]}
+
+        response = self.client.post('/posts/', data=json.dumps(post), content_type='application/ld+json')
+        self.assertEqual(response.status_code, 201)
+        self.assertNotIn('author', response.data)
+        self.assertEquals(response.data['content'], "post content")
diff --git a/djangoldp/views.py b/djangoldp/views.py
index 6b1e8ad5c1012fd75a35095037b3af110e6a4490..dd63fa18253d31d41c1cedf456ea2273ec0f5712 100644
--- a/djangoldp/views.py
+++ b/djangoldp/views.py
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 from django.apps import apps
 from django.conf import settings
 from django.conf.urls import url, include
+from django.contrib.auth.models import User
 from django.core.exceptions import FieldDoesNotExist
 from django.core.urlresolvers import get_resolver
 from django.db.utils import OperationalError
@@ -119,7 +120,7 @@ class LDPViewSet(LDPViewSetGenerator):
         return type(LDPSerializer)(model_name + 'Serializer', (LDPSerializer,), {'Meta': meta_class})
 
     def perform_create(self, serializer, **kwargs):
-        if hasattr(self.model._meta, 'auto_author'):
+        if hasattr(self.model._meta, 'auto_author') and isinstance(self.request.user, User):
             kwargs[self.model._meta.auto_author] = self.request.user
         serializer.save(**kwargs)