How to refer to an author whose last name can be confused with a pronoun?
Specific anti-advice (for a related situation):

If this situation arises with a female author, especially if their first name is recognizably female, I encourage you not to write out the full name each time.

It may seem unobjectionable, but this would play into the sexist practice (once widespread, though fortunately much less common today) of referring to men by last name while referring to women always by first and last name: 


  This phenomenon has been analyzed previously by Schmidt [6], Wang [7], Mary Jones [2,3,4], Elfenbacher [1], Doris Laubin [5], and Washington [8,9].