With this answer with good practices, by Chip Bennett, in mind just do a simple global thing — add global $authordata to your template file:
<?php global $authordata; ?>
Follow the Codex’s Global Variables article for details about the global practice.
Quoting the portion specific to the Question:
$authordata(object) Returns an object with information about the author, set alongside the last$post.
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