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.
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.