2026 Knowlton Literary Festival
Michael Posner
Canadian journalist, playwright and biographer/author
Leonard Cohen, Untold Stories chronicles the full breadth of his extraordinary life. Biographer Michael Posner’s sweeping three-volume series of Cohen’s life.
Poet, novelist, singer-songwriter, artist, prophet, icon—there has never been a figure like Leonard Cohen. He was a true giant in contemporary western culture, entertaining and inspiring the world with his work. From his groundbreaking and bestselling novels, The Favourite Game and Beautiful Losers, to timeless songs such as Suzanne, Dance Me to the End of Love, and Hallelujah, Cohen is one of the world’s most cherished artists. His death in 2016 was felt around the world by the many fans and followers who would miss his warmth, humour, intellect, and piercing insights.
Michael Posner is a Canadian journalist, best known as the author of the Mordecai Richler biography The Last Honest Man, the Anne Murray biography All of Me, and The Art of Medicine: Healing and the Limits of Technology with the physician Dr. Herbert Ho Ping Kong.
He is also the author of a three-volume oral biography of Leonard Cohen published by Simon and Schuster.
The first volume Leonard Cohen, Untold Stories: The Early Years was published in 2020. The second volume Leonard 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, was published in late 2022.
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Website: (michaelposner.com)
