`npm install` after `vue init` fails if git user name has double quotes

[sayanriju]

$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
Release:        16.04
Codename:       xenial

$ node -v
v6.4.0

$ npm -v
3.10.3

$ vue --version
2.5.0

Command: vue init webpack-simple accepting the default options followed by npm i in the project directory.

Result: Fails with

npm ERR! file /tmp/foo/package.json
npm ERR! code EJSONPARSE

npm ERR! Failed to parse json
npm ERR! Unexpected token 'i' at 4:22
npm ERR!   "author": "Sayan "Riju" Chakrabarti <my.actual.email@gmail.com>",
npm ERR!                      ^
npm ERR! File: /tmp/foo/package.json
npm ERR! Failed to parse package.json data.
npm ERR! package.json must be actual JSON, not just JavaScript.