18 Facts About Edwin Rolfe

Edwin Rolfe was an American poet, journalist, Spanish Civil War veteran, and screenwriter.

Edwin Rolfe's parents were Russian Jewish immigrants who met through a marriage broker and wed in 1908.

Edwin Rolfe eventually became its editor, succeeding his close friend Leo Hurwitz.

Edwin Rolfe's first collected poems appeared in an anthology with three other poets.

Edwin Rolfe's poems were inseparable from the historical events swirling around him.

Edwin Rolfe's poetry was his intellectual and emotional response to the Great Depression, Spanish Civil War, and Second Red Scare.

Edwin Rolfe reported on the Sacco and Vanzetti case for the latter publication.

Edwin Rolfe said his name was Rolfe; I looked at him.

Edwin Rolfe was frail; he resembled a bird; he had a fine, delicate bone structure and he did not look as though he should be in an army.

Edwin Rolfe had a tiny automatic pistol some one had given him, and it became him, though I could not imagine him ever using it.

In 1940, unable to obtain other work, Edwin Rolfe accepted an offer for $45 a week at the New York office of TASS, the Soviet news agency.

Edwin Rolfe was running their Latin American desk, using the Spanish language fluency he acquired in Spain.

That meant Edwin Rolfe had to cease all CPUSA activities, and he was prohibited from publishing any of his own writings, a restriction he found onerous since he had been completing new poems about his war experiences.

Edwin Rolfe was assigned to an anti-tank gun battalion in the infantry.

Edwin Rolfe survived the training but a couple months later, while out on maneuvers, he collapsed from amoebic dysentery.

Edwin Rolfe spent a month in the camp hospital, and was medically discharged from the Army before seeing action overseas.

Edwin Rolfe relocated to Hollywood to adapt the novel for the screen.

Edwin Rolfe died of a heart attack in May 1954 at age 44.