Edwin Rolfe

Edwin Rolfe
BornSolomon Fishman
September 7, 1909
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
DiedMay 24, 1954(1954-05-24) (aged 44)
Hollywood, California
Occupation
  • Poet
  • journalist
  • screenwriter
Education
Spouse
Mary Wolfe
(m. 1936)

Edwin Rolfe (September 7, 1909 – May 24, 1954) was an American poet, journalist, Spanish Civil War veteran, and screenwriter. He has been dubbed "the poet laureate of the Abraham Lincoln Battalion"  the group of Americans who fought alongside the Spanish Loyalists against the Nazi-backed forces of Francisco Franco and his Nationalist faction.