William Oliver Guillemont Lofts (2 September 1923 – 27 June 1997) was a British researcher and author.
Lofts was born in Marylebone, London in 1923, and attended Barrow Hill Road Elementary School.
[1] During the Second World War, he enlisted in the Royal Artillery on 6 August 1942 and served in India and Myanmar for almost all of his service.
[2] It was during his military service that he first became avidly interested in juvenile fiction, after coming across a "Sexton Blake" paperback in a deserted hut in 1944.
[3] From the 1960s to the 1980s he worked for the legal department of IPC Magazines, mostly researching issues related to copyright.