Michael Posner (journalist)
Michael Posner, born 1947, is a Canadian journalist, best known as the author of the Mordecai Richler biography The Last Honest Man, the Anne Murray biography All of Me, and The Art of Medicine: Healing and the Limits of Technology with renowned physician, Dr. Herbert Ho Ping Kong.
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. 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, The Globe and Mail and Toronto Life. His books have included The Big Picture: What Canadians Think About Almost Everything, cowritten with Allan Gregg; Canadian Dreams: The Making and Marketing of Independent Films ; and Triple Bypass, about his own recent battle with heart disease.
