Add author with link?

Meant to post…

I got the author name using the following:

$html .= ‘<p class=”authorname”>’ . ( get_the_author() ) . ‘</p>’;

But this just shows the author name on its own line underneath the date.

I want it to link to the author’s posts page. I can get it to do that using the_author_posts_link, but then all the links for each post show up at the top of the first post above the title.

I want the_author_posts_link to show up just below the date.

Thank you