Judith B. Tankard is a landscape historian, author, and preservation consultant. She received an MA in art history from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, and taught at the Landscape Institute of Harvard University for over 20 years.

She is the author or co-author of nine illustrated books on landscape history and has been honoured with a Historic New England Book Prize, a Quill and Trowel Award from the Garden Writers Association, and a book award from the American Horticultural Society.

Tankard’s articles and book reviews have been published in Country Life, Horticulture, Hortus, Landscape Architecture, Pacific Horticulture, and other publications, and she served as editor of the Journal of the New England Garden History Society.