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The Memory Chalet stands apart from most memoirs. Written by Tony Judt, renowned imageBritish historian, best known for his work "Postwar" (2005), after becoming quadriplegic as a result of Lou Gehrig’s disease, the memoir began as a simple memory exercise meant to distract himself from the discomforts of insomnia.