Smarty Pants: Famous Black Women You Didn’t Know Attended Ivy League Schools - Page 11
Tracy K. Smith
Talented poet and Pulitzer Prize Winner Tracy K. Smith actually went to two Ivy League colleges. She got her Bachelor’s from Harvard in 1994 and a Master’s in creative writing at Columbia University in 1997. In 2005 she became professor of creative writing at Princeton University. Her book, A Life on Mars, won her the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 2011.