Publisher
Kent Carroll, the editorial director of
Grove Press from 1975 to 1981, co-founded Carroll & Graf in 1982 with Herman Graf, who was executive vice president of Grove Press. Headquartered on
West 17th Street in New York City, it offered a variety of fiction and non-fiction, including history, biography, current affairs, mysteries (including British imports) and science fiction. By 1995 Carroll & Graf was releasing 125 titles of fiction and non-fiction annually, by authors ranging from
Anthony Burgess,
Beryl Bainbridge, and
Penelope Fitzgerald to
Philip K. Dick and
Eric Ambler. Best Evidence, which spent three months on the NY Times best seller list (Jan - March, 1981), was published by Carroll and Graf, in trade paperback format in 1988. A non-fiction best-seller,
Crossfire: The Plot That Killed Kennedy, was transformed by
Oliver Stone into the movie
JFK. Carroll & Graf was purchased by the Avalon Publishing Group in 1998, and in 2003 Will Balliett became its publisher. Avalon was purchased by the
Perseus Books Group in January 2007. That May, Perseus president
David Steinberger announced that Carroll & Graf would be shut down. ==Authors and editors==