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,[1] the Anne Murray biography All of Me,[2] and The Art of Medicine: Healing and the Limits of Technology with renowned physician, Dr. Herbert Ho Ping Kong.[3]

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.[4] He did not continue to work as an actor, instead becoming a journalist. In 1977, he co-founded Canadian Lawyer Magazine,[5] and went on to write for publications such as the Financial Times of Canada,[6] The Globe and Mail and Toronto Life. His books have included The Big Picture: What Canadians Think About Almost Everything (1990), cowritten with Allan Gregg;[7] Canadian Dreams: The Making and Marketing of Independent Films (1993);[8] and Triple Bypass (2016), about his own recent battle with heart disease.