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

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. She lives in Miami.[4]

Early life

Posner was born in London.[4] She left school at age 16.[4] She has spoken on how dyslexia affected her schooling.[5]

After leaving the UK, she travelled to Ibiza and Majorca, doing odd jobs and modelling. She moved to New York in 1978.[4]

She met and married Gerald Posner, who was then a lawyer. They went into journalism and writing together.[6]

Writing career

Posner has worked on thirteen books of nonfiction with her husband, Gerald Posner.[7] According to the St. Petersburg Times, she "works with him on his books and joins him in his interviews, but refuses co-author credit."[8][9] She has also written articles and profiles for national magazines, including Salon, The Huffington Post, and The Daily Beast.

In 2000, she published her first solo book, a memoir about how she passed through menopause without using hormones, entitled This is Not Your Mother’s Menopause. A sequel, No Hormones, No Fear, was published in 2003.[10]

From 2005 to 2007, she was a columnist for Miami's Ocean Drive magazine. She has also written for Be Healthy.[11]

Posner and her husband worked together on her husband's first book, a biography of Josef Mengele. Posner learned of Victor Capesius and in 2017 wrote The Pharmacist of Auschwitz.[12] 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.[13] The book was translated into sixteen foreign languages and sold in various countries.[14]

Other media

Posner has also been a commentator on television, appearing on NBC, MSNBC and FOX, regarding journalism careers.[15]

In 2022 Posner appeared on Richard Helppie's Common Bridge podcast where she argued that 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][16]

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."[17] Her 2007 Wikinews interview sets forth the limits and risks for a journalist when it comes to disagreeing publicly with publishers.[18][19] Her husband wrote about the controversy in The Huffington Post.

Personal life

In 2021 Posner was diagnosed with breast cancer.[4] She is now in remission.

Posner is Jewish and has spoken on the Antisemitism she faced in her childhood.[20] She runs a “No Antisemitism” Facebook page that monitors antisemitism incidents worldwide.[21]

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.[22]

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. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Helppie, Richard (7 June 2022). "Woman Erased: How Degendering is Eliminating the Biological Woman". thecommonbridge.substack.com. Retrieved 7 January 2023.
  5. ↑ Florida International University
  6. ↑ Voyage media
  7. ↑ "Trisha Posner discussion at Books and Books 2017". YouTube.
  8. ↑ "Miami Vice is a Redundancy" St. Petersburg Times (FL), October 18, 2009
  9. ↑ "Review: Gerald Posner's 'Miami Babylon' tells it like it was, and is". Tampa Bay Times. Retrieved 9 January 2017.
  10. ↑ Penguin Books
  11. ↑ The Common Bridge
  12. ↑ Florida International University
  13. ↑ "Wall Street Journal Bestsellers'". thechronicleherald.ca. 25 January 2018. Retrieved 25 January 2018.
  14. ↑ "The Pharmacist of Auschwitz" 2 Seas Foreign Rights Catalog, January 2018
  15. ↑ Trisha Posner on TODAY with Katie Couric, September 2000
  16. ↑ "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.
  17. ↑ "Ocean Writer Gets Deep-Sixed," New York Post, August 31, 2007
  18. ↑ "Interview with dismissed Ocean Drive columnist Trisha Posner". Wikinews. 22 September 2007. Retrieved 9 January 2017.
  19. ↑ https://automobileadshop.com/interview-with-dismissed-ocean-drive-columnist-trisha-posner/
  20. ↑ Voyage media
  21. ↑ Official website
  22. ↑ "THE PHARMACIST OF AUSCHWITZ by Patricia Posner". Kirkus Reviews. Retrieved 18 January 2017.
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