<p>I have a <code>Person</code> model that has a foreign key relationship to <code>Book</code>, which has a number of fields, but I'm most concerned about <code>author</code> (a standard CharField).</p>

<p>With that being said, in my <code>PersonAdmin</code> model, I'd like to display <code>book.author</code> using <code>list_display</code>:</p>

<pre><code>class PersonAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
    list_display = ['book.author',]
</code></pre>

<p>I've tried all of the obvious methods for doing so, but nothing seems to work.</p>

<p>Any suggestions?</p>

According to the documentation, you can only display the
```
__unicode__
```
representation of a ForeignKey:
http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/contrib/admin/#list-display
Seems odd that it doesn't support the
```
'book__author'
```
style format which is used everywhere else in the DB API.
Turns out there's
a ticket for this feature
, which is marked as Won't Fix.