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Cornyn is a graduate of Monrovia High School, Pomona College, attended Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and received a Masters in Theatre from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1962.
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He also wrote three privately published family genealogy books (all in the Library of Congress). Cornyn began working for Warner Brothers Records in 1958. He left the Warner Music Group in 1990 to live an office-free life.
He is widely remembered for his years heading up Warner-Reprise"s Creative Services department, writing innovative ads, and other marketing approaches.
He was awarded the Grammy Award for Best Album Notes in 1966 for Frank Sinatra"s Strangers in the Night and again in 1967 for Sinatra at the Sands. His work gained one additional nomination in 1974 for Sinatra"s Ol" Blue Eyes Is Back.
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." He also co-authored the screenplay for Warner Brothers" 1970 film The Phynx. In 1989, while heading Warner New Media, Cornyn introduced a new multimedia format called Civil Defense+Graphics, or Civil Defense+G. In 1991 he was asked to lead the short-lived computer games division of Media Vision, Incorporated., and was named executive vice-president and co-head of Media Vision Multimedia Publishing, heading its Westlake Village offices.
Cornyn was twice married.
He died on May 11, 2015 at his home in Carpinteria at the age of 81.
