Edwin Rolfe

Edwin Rolfe
Rolfe in Permit Me Refuge
Born
Solomon Fishman

September 7, 1909
DiedMay 24, 1954(1954-05-24) (aged 44)
Occupation
  • Poet
  • journalist
  • screenwriter
Education
Spouse
Mary Wolfe
(m. 1936)

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