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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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  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.
  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.
  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.