Trisha Posner

Trisha Posner is a British non-fiction writer. She is the author of This is Not Your Mother's Menopause: One Woman's Natural Journey Through Change (2000), No Hormones, No Fear (2003)[1] and The Pharmacist of Auschwitz: The Untold Story (2017).[2][3] She also wrote under her full name, Patricia Posner.

Trisha Posner
BornPatricia Denise Levene
March 10th 1951
London, United Kingdom
Pen namePatricia Posner
OccupationWriter
NationalityBritish
GenreNon-fiction
SpouseGerald Posner
Website
trishaposner.com

Early life

Posner was born in London.[4] She left school at age 16.[4]

She moved to New York in 1978.[4]

Career

From 2005 to 2007, she was a columnist for Miami's Ocean Drive magazine.

Posner wrote The Pharmacist of Auschwitz after a meeting she and her husband, author Gerald Posner, had in 1985 in New York with Rolf Mengele, the only son of Nazi doctor Josef Mengele.[5] The book received praise from Michael Granberry, Arts Critic for The Dallas Morning News, and was on The Wall Street Journal Nonfiction Bestseller list at number 6 on 21 January 2018.[6] The book was translated into sixteen foreign languages and sold in various countries.[7]

Posner has worked on thirteen investigative books of nonfiction with her husband, Gerald Posner.[8] According to St. Petersburg Times she "works with him on his books and joins him in his interviews, but refuses co-author credit."[9][10] She has also written articles and profiles for national magazines, including Salon, The Huffington Post, and The Daily Beast.

Posner has also been a commentator on television, NBC, MSNBC and FOX, regarding journalism careers.[11]

In 2022 Posner appeared on the podcast Richard Helppie's Common Bridge where she claimed the use of gender-neutral language in medical contexts "erases women" and expressed concern about transgender athletes and transgender people using bathrooms or dressing rooms corresponding to their gender identity.[4][12]

Controversy

In 2007, she was at the center of a controversy, regarding whether a journalist could express an opinion opposed to that of her publisher on a public issue. According to the New York Post, she was "fired for civic activism."[13] Her 2007 Wikinews interview sets forth the limits and risks for a journalist when it comes to disagreeing publicly with publishers.[14] Gerald Posner wrote about the controversy in The Huffington Post.[15]

Personal life

In 2021 Posner was diagnosed with breast cancer.[4]

Posner and her husband live in Miami, Florida as of 2022.[4]

Books
  • Posner, Trisha (2000). This is not your mother's menopause : one woman's natural journey through change (Uncorrected proof. ed.). New York: Villard Books. ISBN 978-0375503986.
  • Posner, Trisha (2003). No hormones, no fear : a natural journey through menopause (Villard Books trade pbk. ed. ed.). New York: Villard Books. ISBN 9780812967555.
  • Posner, Patricia (2017). The Pharmacist of Auschwitz: The Untold Story. Crux Publishing Ltd. ISBN 9781909979406.[16]

References
  1. "More on Menopause: Three New Books Look at Ways to Cope" Ottawa Citizen, April 18, 2000' "Books Hit the Shelves as Boomers Hit Menopause," Edmonton Journal (Alberta), April 23, 2000; "Our Book Browsers' Pick," Contra Costa Times (California), October 8, 2000
  2. "Burt Reynolds Big Birthday Party" Miami Herald, February 24, 2016
  3. Granberry, Michael (13 January 2017). "In 'Pharmacist of Auschwitz,' author Patricia Posner reminds us why we need to remember Holocaust". Dallas News. Retrieved 18 January 2017.
  4. Helppie, Richard. "Woman Erased: How Degendering is Eliminating the Biological Woman". thecommonbridge.substack.com. Retrieved 7 January 2023.
  5. How meeting Josef Mengele's son led Trisha Posner to The Pharmacist of Auschwitz. YouTube. Archived from the original on 8 December 2021.
  6. "Wall Street Journal Bestsellers'". thechronicleherald.ca. 25 January 2018. Retrieved 25 January 2018.
  7. "The Pharmacist of Auschwitz" 2 Seas Foreign Rights Catalog, January 2018
  8. "Trisha Posner discussion at Books and Books 2017".
  9. "Miami Vice is a Redundancy" St. Petersburg Times (FL), October 18, 2009
  10. "Review: Gerald Posner's 'Miami Babylon' tells it like it was, and is". Tampa Bay Times. Retrieved 9 January 2017.
  11. Trisha Posner on TODAY with Katie Couric, September 2000
  12. "Richard Helppie's Common Bridge: Episode 158- Woman Erased: How Degendering is Eliminating the Biological Woman- With Trisha Posner on Apple Podcasts". Apple Podcasts. Retrieved 7 January 2023.
  13. "Ocean Writer Gets Deep-Sixed," New York Post, August 31, 2007
  14. "Interview with dismissed Ocean Drive columnist Trisha Posner". Wikinews. 22 September 2007. Retrieved 9 January 2017.
  15. Posner, Gerald (5 September 2007). "Can a Journalist Have a Different Opinion than Her Publisher?". The Huffington Post. Retrieved 9 January 2017.
  16. "THE PHARMACIST OF AUSCHWITZ by Patricia Posner". Kirkus Reviews. Retrieved 18 January 2017.
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