Change author link

Ok so I’ve searched all over trying to find an answer to my issue, but so far I’ve found nothing specific.

Currently, when an author’s name is displayed on a post, the url points to a list of all the posts by that author. The url is https://www.domain.com/author/username

In trying to get Google’s authorship verification setup, I need to get a link on the author’s page that links back to my Google+ profile. Now, I know I can follow all the tutorials on how to create a custom author page, but I want to go a step further. I’d like to change the entire location of the “author page”. Of course I know how to change the base of the url from author to something else and I can even change whether it links to the display name or the nicename as indicated in the database.

But since my site already as an About Me page for myself, is it possible to change the author url to a standard WordPress page? I was looking into the creation of the custom author page, but it seems a little complex. Besides, I like my about me page much better because it contains all the information I need and it’s nice to be able to edit it as a standard page rather than having to go in and customize a php file every time I want to make a change.

So just to be clear, I’d like to edit the single.php file to use a WordPress page as the author link. I’m sure I could just use direct html in there, but my other concern is that if I happen to have multiple authors, I’d want those authors to have their own page.

Clearly this does create more work because I’d have to setup a standard WordPress page for each author, but since my site would only ever have a few, this isn’t a primary concern.