Editing Francis Fukuyama (section)

==Personal life==
Fukuyama is a part-time photographer. He also has an interest in early American [[Virginia furniture|furniture]], which he reproduces by hand.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/07/books/review/Fukuyama-t.html | work=The New York Times | title=Making Things Work | first=Francis | last=Fukuyama | date=June 7, 2009 | access-date=May 2, 2010}}</ref> Another hobby of Fukuyama's is [[sound recording and reproduction]]. He explained, "These days I seem to spend as much time thinking about gear as I do analyzing politics for my day job."<ref name=Newsweek /> Since the mid-1990s, Fukuyama has been building his own personal computers.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Fukuyama |first1=Francis |title=Why Everyone Should Build Their Own PC and Stop Using Macs |url=https://www.americanpurpose.com/blog/fukuyama/why-everyone-should-build-their-own-pc-and-stop-using-macs/ |access-date=29 January 2021 |work=American Purpose |date=26 Jan 2021}}</ref>

Fukuyama is married to Laura Holmgren, whom he met when she was a [[University of California, Los Angeles|University of California in Los Angeles]] graduate student after he started working for the [[RAND Corporation]].<ref name=wroe/><ref name=stanford/> He dedicated his book ''Trust: The Social Virtues and the Creation of Prosperity'' to her. They live in California, with their three children, Julia, David, and John.

He is the first cousin to crime novelist [[Joe Ide]]. Fukuyama helped him get his first book published.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/28/books/joe-ide-iq-crime-los-angeles-wrecked.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220102/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/28/books/joe-ide-iq-crime-los-angeles-wrecked.html |archive-date=2022-01-02 |url-access=limited |url-status=live | work=The New York Times | title=Raised in South Central, Joe Ide Expands the Territory of L.A. Noir | first=Gal| last=Beckerman | date=September 28, 2018 | access-date=October 1, 2018}}{{cbignore}}</ref>