Christian Riese Lassen, born in 1956 in California, was raised on the Hawaiian island of Maui, where the rhythms of the ocean and a deep immersion in marine culture shaped his worldview. An avid ...
Willem de Kooning (1904–1997), a Dutch-born American painter, was born in Rotterdam, Netherlands, into a working-class family as the youngest of five children. His parents’ separation in early ...
Mark Maurer is a reporter on The Wall Street Journal’s CFO Journal team. Based in New York, he writes about corporate finance, accounting, auditing and regulation of companies. Before joining the ...