Tony Judt was the Erich Maria Remarque Professor of European Studies at New York University, as well as the founder and director of the Remarque Institute, dedicated to creating an ongoing conversation between Europe and the United States. He was educated at King's College, Cambridge, and the cole Normale Suprieure, Paris, and also taught at Cambridge, Oxford, and Berkeley. Professor Judt was a frequent contributor to  The New York Review of Books ,  The Times Literary Supplement ,  The New Republic ,  The New York Times , and many journals across Europe and the United States. He is the author or editor of fifteen books, including  Thinking the Twentieth Century ,  The Memory Chalet ,  Ill Fares the Land ,  Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century , and  Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 , which was one of  The New York Times Book Review 's Ten Best Books of 2005, the winner of the Council on Foreign Relations Arthur Ross Book Award, and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. He died in August 2010 at the age of sixty-two.