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]
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.[third-party source needed]
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][third-party source needed]
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][third-party source needed] 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]
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][third-party source needed] Her 2007 Wikinews interview sets forth the limits and risks for a journalist when it comes to disagreeing publicly with publishers.[18][19][third-party source needed] Her husband wrote about the controversy in The Huffington Post.[third-party source needed]
Posner, Trisha (2000). This is not your mother's menopause : one woman's natural journey through change (Uncorrected proof. ed.). New York: Villard Books. ISBN978-0375503986.
Posner, Trisha (2003). No hormones, no fear : a natural journey through menopause (Villard Books trade pbk. ed. ed.). New York: Villard Books. ISBN9780812967555.
Posner, Patricia (2017). The Pharmacist of Auschwitz: The Untold Story. Crux Publishing Ltd. ISBN9781909979406.[20]
References
^"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
