| Status | Defunct |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1982 |
| Successor | Perseus Books Group |
| Country of origin | United States |
Carroll & Graf Publishers, an American publishing company centered in New York City, was an imprint of the Avalon Publishing Group,
Publisher Kent Carroll, the editorial director of Grove Press from 1975 to 1981, co-founded Carroll & Graf in 1982. Headquartered on West 17th Street in New York, New York, it offered a range of fiction and non-fiction, including history, biography, current affairs, mysteries (including British iimports) and science fiction.[1] Avalon was purchased by the Perseus Books Group in January 2007;[2]
Notable authors included Allen Appel, Dennis Cooper, Samuel R. Delany, Amanda Filipacchi, Roméo Dallaire, Susan McDougal, Joyce Carol Oates, David Pietrusza and Joseph C. Wilson.
Carroll & Graf editor-in-chief Philip Turner departed in 2006 and was replaced by Bill Strachan, who began a career in the business 35 years earlier as an Anchor Books editorial secretary, rising through the ranks at Viking, Houghton Mifflin and Henry Holt to Columbia University Press.
Carroll and Graf published Best Evidence (1988), The New York Times bestseller by David Lifton. That edition contained the autopsy photographs of John F. Kennedy, the first time that evidence had been published.