Beloved husband of Laurette V. Graf, father of Jim (Margaret) Graf, Tom (Nancy) Graf, Joe Graf, Rosemary (George) Graf Levy, Dan (Alejandra) Graf and Teresa (Tom) Stanton. Grandfather of 13.

Because in just five words, Graf gave us a meme-worthy moment and flipped the gender script on centuries of romantic clichés. And now, women everywhere are rethinking the age-old fairytale proposal.

When Mr. Graf arrived as a salesman at Grove Press in 1964, the publishing house, in Greenwich Village, was near the end of a long First Amendment battle over “Tropic of Cancer,” a sexually ...

Graf was much admired by his colleagues in indie publishing, and a number of people who worked for him started their own presses. One was Claiborne Hancock, who started Pegasus Books in 2006.

This wasn’t tennis but pickleball, a game with which Graf had only been familiar for a few years. To give of sense of the sport’s burgeoning popularity, a peak ESPN audience of close to one ...

One such detail was in Orlok’s hands and fingers. “I wanted to extend Bill’s fingers ever so slightly, and I [asked] David about creating something to push the envelope,” says Eggers.

Orlok is in a state of decay with intricate veining and coloring. White made it darker on the underside because he’s been lying down, but his front is lighter and waxier.

The first person to play Orlok on screen was Max Schreck in F.W. Murnau's 1922 silent film Nosferatu: eine Symphonie des Grauens, which follows a similar narrative to Eggers' reimagining.