American author Colson Whitehead (born in 1969) graduated from Harvard University in 1991 with a bachelorās degree in English and comparative literature. At Harvard he was part of the Dark Room Collective, a local group of young Black writers, several of whom went on to great literary success, including the poet Kevin Young and future U.S. poet laureates Natasha Trethewey and Tracy K. Smith.
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