Show author archive pages for authors with no posts

To access the author user object outside of the loop on an author archive, you can do the following:

global $curauth;
$curauth = (isset($_GET['author_name'])) ? get_user_by('slug', $author_name) : get_userdata(intval($author));
echo 'This is the author page of '.$curauth->display_name;

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