diff --git a/docs/topics/class-based-views/generic-editing.txt b/docs/topics/class-based-views/generic-editing.txt
index 74d19d53b1..059342afd8 100644
--- a/docs/topics/class-based-views/generic-editing.txt
+++ b/docs/topics/class-based-views/generic-editing.txt
@@ -180,7 +180,7 @@ you can use a custom :class:`~django.forms.ModelForm` to do this. First, add
 the foreign key relation to the model::
 
     # models.py
-    from django.contrib.auth import User
+    from django.contrib.auth.models import User
     from django.db import models
 
     class Author(models.Model):