Apparently Google have ended their experiment of “Authorship” – another change in the constantly changing landscape of what helps your website perform for you.
“Today John Mueller of Google Webmaster Tools announced in a Google+ post that Google will stop showing authorship results in Google Search, and will no longer be tracking data from content using rel=author markup.”
From the full article at
http://searchengineland.com/goodbye-google-authorship-201975