Smarty Pants: Famous Black Women You Didn’t Know Attended Ivy League Schools
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.