related author post thumbnail shows post thumbnail

I think the problem may be that the_post_thumbnail() doesn’t accept an ID as a parameter. Instead you should use get_the_post_thumbnail() which does accept an ID as a parameter:

 <?php echo get_the_post_thumbnail($authors_post->ID); ?>

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