Pulitzer Prize for Drama

• 1918 - Jesse Lynch Williams, Why Marry?
• 1919 - no award given
• 1920 - Eugene O'Neill, Beyond the Horizon
• 1921 - Zona Gale, Miss Lulu Bett
• 1922 - Eugene O'Neill, Anna Christie
• 1923 - Owen Davis, Icebound
• 1924 - Hatcher Hughes, Hell-Bent Fer Heaven
• 1925 - Sidney Howard, They Knew What They Wanted
• 1926 - George Kelly, Craig's Wife
• 1927 - Paul Green, In Abraham's Bosom
• 1928 - Eugene O'Neill, Strange Interlude
• 1929 - Elmer L. Rice, Street Scene
• 1930 - Marc Connelly, The Green Pastures
• 1931 - Susan Glaspell, Alison's House
• 1932 - George S. Kaufman, Morrie Ryskind, Ira Gershwin, Of Thee I Sing
• 1933 - Maxwell Anderson, Both Your Houses
• 1934 - Sidney Kingsley, Men in White
• 1935 - Zoe Akins, The Old Maid
• 1936 - Robert E. Sherwood, Idiots Delight
• 1937 - Moss Hart, George S. Kaufman, You Can't Take It With You
• 1938 - Thornton Wilder, Our Town
• 1939 - Robert E. Sherwood, Abe Lincoln in Illinois
• 1940 - William Saroyan, The Time of Your Life
• 1941 - Robert E. Sherwood, There Shall Be No Night
• 1942 - no award given
• 1943 - Thornton Wilder, The Skin of Our Teeth
• 1944 - no award given
• 1945 - Mary Chase, Harvey
• 1946 - Russel Crouse, Howard Lindsay, State of the Union
• 1947 - no award given
• 1948 - Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire
• 1949 - Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman
• 1950 - Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II, Joshua Logan, South Pacific
• 1951 - no award given
• 1952 - Joseph Kramm, The Shrike
• 1953 - William Inge, Picnic
• 1954 - John Patrick, The Teahouse of the August Moon
• 1955 - Tennessee Williams, Cat on A Hot Tin Roof
• 1956 - Albert Hackett, Frances Goodrich, Diary of Anne Frank
• 1957 - Eugene O'Neill, Long Day's Journey Into Night
• 1958 - Ketti Frings, Look Homeward, Angel
• 1959 - Archibald Macleish, J. B.
• 1960 - Jerome Weidman, George Abbott for book' Jerry Bock for music, and Sheldon Harnick for lyrics, Fiorello!'
• 1961 - Tad Mosel, All The Way Home
• 1962 - Frank Loesser, Abe Burrows, How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying
• 1963 - no award given
• 1964 - no award given
• 1965 - Frank D. Gilroy, The Subject Was Roses
• 1966 - no award given
• 1967 - Edward Albee, A Delicate Balance
• 1968 - no award given
• 1969 - Howard Sackler, The Great White Hope
• 1970 - Charles Gordone, No Place To Be Somebody
• 1971 - Paul Zindel, The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-In-The-Moon Marigolds
• 1972 - no award given
• 1973 - Jason Miller, That Championship Season
• 1974 - no award given
• 1975 - Edward Albee, Seascape
• 1976 - Michael Bennett for concept, choreography, and direction; James Kirkwood for book, Marvin Hamlisch for lyrics, Nicholas Dante for music, A Chorus Line
• 1977 - Michael Cristofer, The Shadow Box
• 1978 - Donald L. Coburn, The Gin Game
• 1979 - Sam Shepard, Buried Child
• 1980 - Lanford Wilson, Talley's Folly
• 1981 - Beth Henley, Crimes of the Heart
• 1982 - Charles Fuller, A Soldier's Play
• 1983 - Marsha Norman, 'Night, Mother
• 1984 - David Mamet, Glengarry Glen Ross
• 1985 - James Lapine for book; Stephen Sondheim for music and lyrics, Sunday in the Park With George
• 1986 - no award given
• 1987 - August Wilson, Fences
• 1988 - Alfred Uhry, Driving Miss Daisy
• 1989 - Wendy Wasserstein, The Heidi Chronicles
• 1990 - August Wilson, The Piano Lesson
• 1991 - Neil Simon, Lost in Yonkers
• 1992 - Robert Schenkkan, The Kentucky Cycle
• 1993 - Tony Kushner, Angels in America: Millennium Approaches
• 1994 - Edward Albee, Three Tall Women
• 1995 - Horton Foote, The Young Man From Atlanta
• 1996 - Jonathan Larson, Rent
• 1997 - no award given
• 1998 - Paula Vogel, How I Learned to Drive
• 1999 - Margaret Edson, Wit
• 2000 - Donald Margulies, Dinner With Friends
• 2001 - David Auburn, Proof
• 2002 - Suzan-Lori Parks, Topdog/Underdog

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