Manually Specifying non-user Authors for articles?

Hi, I was wondering, is there a way to manually specify authors for articles that aren’t actually users in the wordpress system? I’d like to be able to just manually type in an author name, that will still have the “Author”-style archive page links like normal for the article, but not actually be tied to a user in the WordPress system. Is this possible? Thanks for any guidance or suggestions, it’s greatly appreciated!