Stuart Kane is a novelist, researcher, and teacher who was born in Birmingham. Kane holds an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Birmingham. He had trials at Aston Villa as a youngster and was on the books at Walsall FC but wasn't offered YTS forms. He then turned his focus to rugby, where he played rugby league for Ireland Students in the mid-nineties. He has been published academically as a co-author of Conversations with Biographical Novelists: Truthful Fictions across the Globe (Bloomsbury 2019). 

Stuart's passion for football and biographical fiction combined to create Man Friday (The Life and Times of Robin Friday). 'I wanted to bring Robin Friday back to life and tell his story more authentically.'