to conservancy causes US$100 million of assets from his wealth, and has pledged his entire fortune for the same purpose upon his death. Personal life He met his wife, Wendy Judge, a Wellesley College graduate, during his senior year. The couple have two adult children, sports-team owner Henry Merritt Paulson III, more commonly known as Merritt Paulson, and journalist Amanda Paulson, also a graduate of Dartmouth. The Paulsons became grandparents in June 2007. They maintain homes in both Chicago and Barrington Hills (a suburb of Chicago). In 2016, his wife expressed the importance of Christian Science teaching in their lives. In media Paulson was portrayed by William Hurt in the 2011 HBO film Too Big to Fail and by James Cromwell in the 2009 BBC film The Last Days of Lehman Brothers. In the documentary film Inside Job, Paulson is cited as one of the persons responsible for the economic meltdown of 2008 and named in Time as one of the "25 People to Blame for the Financial Crisis". In September 2013, Bloomberg Businessweek released the documentary film Hank: Five Years From the Brink, directed by Oscar-nominated Joe Berlinger and distributed by Netflix. Paulson is featured in the 2018 HBO documentary Panic: The Untold Story of the Financial Crisis. Honors and recognition 2007, Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement presented by Awards Council member Richard M. Daley, the Mayor of Chicago 2011, The Committee of 100’s “Leadership Award for Advancing U.S.-China Relations” 2016, Environmental Law Institute’s Environmental Achievement Award 2009, Harvard Business School’s Alumni Achievement Award Recipient Bibliography Paulson, Hank and Hu, Fred: "Banking Reform in China: Mission Critical", in: Pamela Mar and Frank-Jürgen Richter: China – Enabling a New Era of Changes, New York: John Wiley, 2003, Paulson, Hank, On the Brink: Inside the Race to Stop the Collapse of the Global Financial System, New York: Business Plus, 2010, Paulson, Dealing with China: An Insider Unmasks the New Economic Superpower, New York: Twelve, 2015, References Further reading Purdum, Todd S., "Henry Paulson's Longest Night", Vanity Fair, October 2009 Sellers, Patricia, "Hank Paulson's secret life", Fortune, December 29, 2003 Sorkin, Andrew Ross, Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System—and Themselves, New York: Viking Press, 2009, Stewart, James B., "Eight Days: the battle to save the American financial system", The New Yorker'', September 21, 2009. External