Lewis Charles Crofts, (born in Blackburn, United Kingdom on 5 November 1977), is an English author and journalist.
Crofts is currently a correspondent for MLex Market Intelligence, a news agency focusing on competition law and regulatory risk.
He has lived in Hanover (Germany), France, Prague (Czech Republic) and Brussels (Belgium), working as a journalist and translator.
[3] His first book, The Pornographer of Vienna, is a novel based on the life of Austrian painter Egon Schiele who was famous for his sexually explicit depictions of the Viennese underworld.
The novel was published in Italy in September 2008 by Marco Tropea under the title Il pornografo di Vienna.