Trisha Posner
Author
Trisha was London born and raised, and spent spent over half my life in the United States.
For thirty-five years she worked on 13 books of investigative nonfiction with her husband, bestselling author Gerald Posner. On those projects, she conducted every interview with him, sift through thousands of pages of original documents in government and private archives, and worked on early drafts of the manuscripts. As a St. Petersburg Times profile of Gerald noted: “Trisha Posner works with him on his books and joins him in his interviews, but refuses co-author credit.”
In the late 1990s, while continuing to work with Gerald, she launched her solo writing career. In Be Healthy, a monthly New York based subscription magazine, she had a column about developments in women’s health. Having come from a family with a long history of breast cancer, she was highly skeptical of the general pharmaceutical and medical advice that all women should rely on hormone replacement (HRT) for menopause. In 2000, Random House/Villard published her memoir – This is Not Your Mother’s Menopause – casting doubts on the efficacy of universally prescribed HRT and presented her program for passing through menopause naturally. In 2003, after the landmark medical study, the Women’s Health Initiative, was published and confirmed many of the alarming health risks she had addressed in her book, Villard published an updated paperback titled No Hormones, No Fear.
From 2005 to 2007 she wrote two columns for Miami’s Ocean Drive magazine, one about developments in health and the other covering everything from local politics to battles over historic preservation to a much cited profile of magazine editor Tina Brown. She also wrote for The Wall Street Journal, Salon, Huffington Post, and The Daily Beast, as well as having discussed her reporting, among others places, on NBC’s TODAY, MSNBC, and FOX.
For several years, she researched the little known story of Victor Capesius, an ethnic German from Romania who ended up as the chief pharmacist at Auschwitz, the largest Nazi death camp. She learned about Capesius when working with Gerald on a biography of the Nazi Angel of Death, Dr. Josef Mengele. A British publisher issued her biography about Capesius (The Pharmacist of Auschwitz: The Untold Story) in 2017. It reached #6 on the Wall Street Journal bestseller list and has been translated into 16 languages, a bestseller in half a dozen of those countries.
She currently maintains a “No Antisemitism” Facebook page that monitors daily any antisemitism incidents worldwide. One of her current interests is chronicling the woke medical ‘degender’ movement that threatens to erase women.