diff --git a/hg2git.py b/hg2git.py
index 3c0d1e3..baa41cd 100755
--- a/hg2git.py
+++ b/hg2git.py
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ def setup_repo(url):
   return myui,hg.repository(myui,url)
 
 def fixup_user(user,authors):
+  user=user.strip("\"")
   if authors!=None:
     # if we have an authors table, try to get mapping
     # by defaulting to the current value of 'user'