Early Life and Education
Pitts was born October 21, 1960, to Clarice and William Pitts in Baltimore, Maryland. He grew up in working-class neighborhood, raised by a single mother. In his memoir, Pitts discussed that he had debilitating stutter as a child and was "functionally illiterate" until about age 12. He attended Archbishop Curley High School, an all-boys Catholic high school in Baltimore. He went on to Ohio Wesleyan University, but spent summers in Apex, North Carolina. He graduated in 1982 with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Journalism and Speech Communication.
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