Michael Posner (born 1947) is a Canadian journalist, best known as the author of the Mordecai Richler biography The Last Honest Man,Donna Bennett, "The Last Honest Man: Mordecai Richler: An Oral Biography (review)". University of Toronto Quarterly, Volume 75, Number 1, Winter 2006. pp. 395-397. the Anne Murray biography All of Me,"Anne Murray says farewell with All of Me". CBC News, October 29, 2009. and The Art of Medicine: Healing and the Limits of Technology with the physician Dr. Herbert Ho Ping Kong.
Posner is also the author of a three-volume oral biography of Leonard Cohen published by Simon and Schuster in 2020, 2021 and 2022 respectively.
In his youth, he appeared as an actor in the film And No Birds Sing, for which he won the Canadian Film Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Non-Feature at the 21st Canadian Film Awards in 1969."'Best Damn Fiddler' Wins Film of the Year Award". Ottawa Journal, October 6, 1969. He did not continue to work as an actor, instead becoming a journalist.
In 1977, he co-founded Canadian Lawyer Magazine, and went on to write for publications such as the Financial Times of Canada,"Thomson buys Financial Times for Globe to manage". Vancouver Sun, December 12, 1989. The Globe and Mail and Toronto Life.
His books and long form journalistic works have included The Big Picture: What Canadians Think About Almost Everything (1990), cowritten with Allan Gregg;Susan Delacourt, Shopping for Votes: How Politicians Choose Us and We Choose Them. D&M Publishers, 2016. . p. 345. Canadian Dreams: The Making and Marketing of Independent Films (1993);"Brief Reviews: Canadian Dreams". Books in Canada. and Triple Bypass (2016), about his 2013 battle with heart disease.
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