Michael Posner (journalist)

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Michael Posner (born 1947) is a Canadian journalist, best known as the author of the Mordecai Richler biography The Last Honest Man, [1] the Anne Murray biography All of Me, [2] and The Art of Medicine: Healing and the Limits of Technology with the physician Dr. Herbert Ho Ping Kong. [3] He is also the author of a three-volume oral biography of Leonard Cohen published by Simon and Schuster. The first volume Leonard Cohen, Untold Stories: The Early Years was published in 2020. The second volume Leonard Cohen, Untold Stories: This Broken Hill was published in 2021, and the final volume, Leonard Cohen, Untold Stories: That's How the Light Gets In, will be published late 2022. [4]

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. [5] He did not continue to work as an actor, instead becoming a journalist. In 1977, he co-founded Canadian Lawyer Magazine, [6] and went on to write for publications such as the Financial Times of Canada, [7] 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; [8] Canadian Dreams: The Making and Marketing of Independent Films (1993); [9] and Triple Bypass (2016), about his 2013 battle with heart disease.

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References

  1. ↑ 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.
  2. ↑ "Anne Murray says farewell with All of Me". CBC News, October 29, 2009.
  3. ↑ ""With advances in medical technology, the healing art of doctor-patient relationships is being lost"". CBC News. July 2, 2014.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  4. ↑ "Leonard Cohen Untold Stories: From This Broken Hill, Volume 2 by Michael Posner". 8 November 2021.
  5. ↑ "'Best Damn Fiddler' Wins Film of the Year Award". Ottawa Journal , October 6, 1969.
  6. ↑ "The way it was: 30 years of the law". Canadian Lawyer Magazine. February 6, 2007.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  7. ↑ "Thomson buys Financial Times for Globe to manage". Vancouver Sun , December 12, 1989.
  8. ↑ Susan Delacourt, Shopping for Votes: How Politicians Choose Us and We Choose Them. D&M Publishers, 2016. ISBN   9781771621106. p. 345.
  9. ↑ "Brief Reviews: Canadian Dreams". Books in Canada .


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