Direct Links to A Book Page or Author Page

I seem to be missing something in my knowledge of LT. I keep wanting a way to go directly to the author page, not necessarily one whose books I own. Simialarly I would like to go directly to a book page for a new book I am evaluating.
Up to now I just go to Goodreads and type in a name and I am there. Is there a way in LT to do the same thing?

You can type anything you want in the search bar in the upper right corner of every page. The default search is for book titles but once on the search page you can select other options on the left, such as "authors" or "series"

Although the search defaults to work titles, if you input author name the search results will list works by that author, so you can directly go to author page by clicking on the name. If you expect the pop-up links as you are writing like in Goodreads, that is not available. You have to hit search and choose from there. OTOH, LT search is far more fine grained and once on search page you can see all the options on the left

Of course, if you are in talk, you also have the option of putting square brackets around the title to create a touchstone.

For author pages you can take a likely guess at what the URL will be (formulate the author name into lastfirst or lastfirstmiddle), and go directly to the page. Even if you guess wrongly, for popular authors you'll still land where you intend thanks to combiner efforts:

For example Charlotte Bronte, brontecharlotte, for https://www.librarything.com/author/brontecharlotte
Ursula K. Le Guin, I'd try leguinursulak for https://www.librarything.com/author/leguinursulak – actually this isn't the main URL but because of combinations it redirects to the combined page which is under the code guinursulakle
and so on.
Certainly if you know it's their right name you should land where you intend, or on a disambiguation page when a name is shared.
Caution!: unreliability comes into this as you get away from established and commonly-owned authors, into the wilds of LT. And 20 characters is the maximum length. And accents in names. It's not infallible, but usually succeeds.

Particularly if you're navigating from author to author, you only have to edit the current URL into a new code making this a very quick method (at least on a desktop in a browser where the URL is visible, disregard the idea if handhelds or your browser make it awkward to do).

(Edited, typo)

>2 norabelle414: Thank you very much. I have been negligent in using that search feature. Doing so is an easy answer to my needs