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Douglas Richard Hofstadter was born on February 15, 1945 in New York City.
* He is a cognitive scientist, physicist, and comparative literature scholar.
* His research includes concepts such as the sense of self in relation to the external world, consciousness, analogy-making, artistic creation, literary translation, and discovery in mathematics and physics.
* His 1979 book Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid won both the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction and a National Book Award (at that time called The American Book Award) for Science.
* He is currently a professor of cognitive science and computer science at Indiana University Bloomington, where he directs the Center for Research on Concepts and Cognition.
* He is also the author of several other books, including I Am a Strange Loop, Metamagical Themas, and Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies.
* He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
* He is a recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship and the MacArthur Fellowship.