What prize did the author win, in 1979, who first used the term recursive acronym in print ?
Douglas Hofstadter Douglas Richard Hofstadter (born February 15, 1945) is an American professor of cognitive science whose research focuses on the sense of "I" (sense of self in relation to the external world), consciousness, analogy-making, artistic creation, literary translation, and discovery in mathematics and physics. Hofstadter's book "Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid", first published in 1979, won both the Pulitzer Prize for general non-fiction
Superior Person's Book of Words The Superior Person's Book of Words is a 1979 non-fiction book by Australian lexicographer Peter Bowler. It was first published in Australia as The Superior Person's Little Book of Words and has been subsequently re-published as The Superior Person's Book of Words. The work collects several bizarre, obsolete and supposedly very useful words from the English language. Bowler followed the book up with five companion books, including the 2009 work "The Completely Superior Person’s Book of Words". David R. Godine, Publisher has reported that the work is one of their best selling titles and sells between "25,000 to 30,000" copies a year.