Herman Graf, 91, died on February 27 in Queens, NY. Graf began his publishing career in 1961, working at McGraw-Hill, Doubleday, Arco Books, and then Grove Press before founding Carroll & Graf with Kent Carroll in 1982. The company was acquired by Avalon in 1998 and Graf became editor-at-large in 2003. After Avalon was acquired by Perseus in 2007, Graf became an acquiring editor and consultant at Skyhorse.