He wrote Exploding: The Highs, Hits, Hype, Heroes, and Hustlers of the Warner Music Group (ISBN 978-0380978526), and authored three privately published family genealogy books (all in the Library of Congress).
[1] He is widely remembered for his years heading up Warner-Reprise's Creative Services department, writing innovative ads, and other marketing approaches, including the storied Warner/Reprise Loss Leaders series.
The literary qualities of his liner notes are discussed in A Storied Singer: Frank Sinatra as Literary Conceit in a chapter entitled "The Composition of Celebrity: Sinatra as Text in the Liner Notes of Stan Cornyn.
WNM also published several interactive multimedia compact discs,[10] such as "How Computers Work" and "Desert Storm."
He attended Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and received a Masters in Theatre from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1962.