Michael Posner (born 1947) is aCanadian journalist, best known as the author of theMordecai Richler biographyThe Last Honest Man,^[1] theAnne Murray biographyAll of Me,^[2] andThe 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 ofLeonard Cohen published bySimon and Schuster. The first volumeLeonard Cohen, Untold Stories: The Early Years was published in 2020. The second volumeLeonard 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 filmAnd No Birds Sing, for which he won theCanadian Film Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Non-Feature at the21st 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 theFinancial Times of Canada,^[7]The Globe and Mail andToronto Life. His books and long form journalistic works have includedThe Big Picture: What Canadians Think About Almost Everything (1990), cowritten withAllan Gregg;^[8]Canadian Dreams: The Making and Marketing of Independent Films (1993);^[9] andTriple Bypass (2016), about his 2013 battle withheart disease.

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