Cite Author's Full Name

Question

I'd like to generate a linked citation with a full author's name.

For instance, if I use

According to \citet{bob2000} apples are tasty.

And run with hyperref, I get the author's last name and a nice hyperlink to the bibliography. But I want the author's full name!

How can I achieve this? (BibLaTeX is also an option, but equally mysterious on this point.)

Answer 1

As it turned out, in this particular instance it worked well enough for me to modify the BibTeX source itself:

@misc{bob2000,
  title={An exposition on the tastiness of apples},
  author={{Bob T. Smith}}
}

Note the double brackets {{ and }} in the entry, which cause display of the full author string, rather than some formatting thereof.

Answer 2

Define your own command where the labelname, the one printed by biblatex on \citeauthor, becomes given-family, that is, the first and the last name.

\newrobustcmd*{\citefirstlastauthor}{\AtNextCite{\DeclareNameAlias{labelname}{given-family}}\citeauthor}

Example:

The main.tex file

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[natbib=true,sortcites=no]{biblatex}

%\citeauthor prints only the last name. This command prints first and last name.
\newrobustcmd*{\citefirstlastauthor}{\AtNextCite{\DeclareNameAlias{labelname}{given-family}}\citeauthor}

\addbibresource{library.bib}

\begin{document}

This is a citation from \citefirstlastauthor{knuth2001things}:

``The assumption that the Bible is God's word is an unprovable axiom%
  that I tend to find confirmed as I look at it.'' \citeauthor[p. 191]{knuth2001things}

\printbibliography

\end{document}

The library.bib file

@book{knuth2001things,
  title={Things a computer scientist rarely talks about},
  author={Knuth, Donald Ervin},
  year={2001},
  publisher={Csli Publications Stanford, CA}
}