(Warner Books was part of the company that would become Time Warner.) On the day of his dismissal, Mr. Kaminsky boasted that his department “will have the biggest year in its history.”In “Newhouse” (1994), a biography of S.I. Mr. Kaminsky would later say that he and Mr. Bernstein had kept disagreeing on strategy. Mr. Kaminsky resigned to take care of his wife, Susan Kaminsky, who had been found to have non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. “If you did,” Mr. Kaminsky told The New York Times, “people would say things like `Howard is spending all his time on his own book.’ ”

Source: New York Times August 29, 2017 23:13 UTC