Rafael S. Torroella was born in 1914. He was a writer, known for El Greco en Toledo (1951). He died on 29 September 2002 in Barcelona, Cataluña, Spain.
Fought on the republican side during the 1936-1939 Spanish Civil War. He
was jailed by nationalist forces during the conflict and released in
the 1940s after his death sentence was commuted.