diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
index c2f7fd5..b2ca1ed 100644
--- a/AUTHORS
+++ b/AUTHORS
@@ -32,4 +32,9 @@ Austin Wood <austin.wood@rmit.edu.au> and Chris Hoobin
 <christopher.hoobin@rmit.edu.au> helped clean up the documentation for 
 version 2 and created the texi2man script.
 
+Adam Spiers <stow@adamspiers.org> refactored the backend code into new
+Stow.pm and Stow/Util.pm modules providing an OO interface, tightened
+up the test suite, added support for `make test' and distribution via
+CPAN, and cleaned up numerous other minor issues.
+
 Stow is currently maintained by Troy Mill.
diff --git a/THANKS b/THANKS
index e874eb1..f40e883 100644
--- a/THANKS
+++ b/THANKS
@@ -20,3 +20,4 @@ Geoffrey Giesemann  <geoffrey.giesemann@rmit.edu.au>
 Emil Mikulic        <emil.mikulic@rmit.edu.au>
 Austin Wood         <austin.wood@rmit.edu.au>
 Christopher Hoobin  <christopher.hoobin.edu.au>
+Adam Spiers         <stow@adamspiers.org>