How to remove the author pages?

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I submitted my site to Google and now the author page is showing up in the search results. 

http://www.domain.com/author/myusername

How do I prevent my and others author names from showing up in search results?

It would be best to disable completely the path “/author/” all together because it’s not a blog but a product site (it only has pages).

I did a search earlier and saw that there are plugins to do this but I’d rather not install a plugin (sometimes they are not updated) if there is another way but will if I have to.

I also searched through the source code of the pages and did not see any links to the author page.

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The above answer is good, but if redirecting to home page, it should specify a 30Best Answertatus and exit after.

add_action('template_redirect', 'my_custom_disable_author_page');

function my_custom_disable_author_page() {
    global $wp_query;

    if ( is_author() ) {
        // Redirect to homepage, set status to 301 permenant redirect. 
        // Function defaults to 302 temporary redirect. 
        wp_redirect(get_option('home'), 301); 
        exit; 
    }
}

wp_redirect() documentation https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/wp_redirect/

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