Rafael Sánchez Mazas (February 18, 1894, Coria - October 1966, Madrid) was a Spanish writer and a leader of the Falange, a right-wing political movement created in Spain before the Spanish Civil War. Sánchez Mazas received a degree in law at the Real Colegio de Estudios Superiores de María Cristina, El Escorial. In 1915 he published Pequeñas memorias de Tarín. He wrote in the magazine Hermes and in the newspapers ABC, El Sol and El Pueblo Vasco. In 1921 he worked in Morocco as a correspondent for El Pueblo Vasco and in 1922 in Rome for ABC. He lived in Italy for seven years and married Liliana Ferlosio. He identified with the fascist movement that was developing at that time. He returned to Spain in 1929 and became an advisor for José Antonio Primo de Rivera, the main ideologist of the Falange. In 1933, he helped to create the weekly newspaper El Fascio, which was banned by the authorities after its second issue was published.