Education
He studied Modern and Medieval Languages at Street Catherine’s College, Oxford University.
He studied Modern and Medieval Languages at Street Catherine’s College, Oxford University.
He has lived in Hanover (Germany), France, Prague (Czechoslovakian Republic) and Brussels (Belgium), working as a journalist and translator. 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. lieutenant was published in June 2007 by Old Street Publishing in the United Kingdom and in July 2008 in North America.
The novel was published in Italy in September 2008 by Marco Tropea under the title Il pornografo di Vienna.
Other fiction writing has appeared in the Prague Revue, Notes from the Underground and Ether Magazine. In an interview with 3:Department of Administration and Management Magazine, he confirmed work on a second novel.
Crofts is also a correspondent for MLex Market Intelligence, a news agency focusing on competition law and regulatory risk. Guardian review 9 June 2007
Il Venerdì 22 July 2008, Vita, Morte e Segreti del "pornografo" Schiele
Il Mattino 3 July 2008, Schiele pornografia ed erotismo
Financial Times review 8 June 2007 "Art of Darkness
Louisiana Repubblica 4 September 2008
Here Is The City.