Trisha Posner

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]

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]

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]

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.

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]

• 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]

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