Issue #9756: credit the author, Andreas Stührk (Trundle)
diff --git a/Misc/ACKS b/Misc/ACKS
index 75ad0f9..59b3661 100644
--- a/Misc/ACKS
+++ b/Misc/ACKS
@@ -777,6 +777,7 @@
 Ken Stox
 Dan Stromberg
 Daniel Stutzbach
+Andreas Stührk
 Pal Subbiah
 Nathan Sullivan
 Mark Summerfield
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 41bda2a..67a4bb3 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
 - Issue #9756: When calling a method descriptor or a slot wrapper descriptor,
   the check of the object type doesn't read the __class__ attribute anymore.
   Fix a crash if a class override its __class__ attribute (e.g. a proxy of the
-  str type).
+  str type). Patch written by Andreas Stührk.
 
 - Issue #6780: fix starts/endswith error message to mention that tuples are
   accepted too.