Pulitzer Prize for Drama

The Pulitzer Prize for Drama was first given out in 1918. It is given to the best drama in the United States in the year.

Awards and nominations

Items marked with an asterisk (*) also won the Tony Award for Best Play or Best Musical

1910s

• 1918: Why Marry? – Jesse Lynch Williams
• 1919: no award

1920s 1920: Beyond the Horizon – Eugene O'Neill 1921: Miss Lulu Bett – Zona Gale 1922: Anna Christie – Eugene O'Neill 1923: Icebound – Owen Davis 1924: Hell-Bent Fer Heaven – Hatcher Hughes 1925: They Knew What They Wanted – Sidney Howard 1926: Craig's Wife – George Kelly 1927: In Abraham's Bosom – Paul Green 1928: Strange Interlude – Eugene O'Neill 1929: Street Scene – Elmer Rice

1930s 1930: The Green Pastures – Marc Connelly 1931: Alison's House – Susan Glaspell 1932: Of Thee I Sing – George S. Kaufman, Morrie Ryskind, Ira Gershwin, 1933: Both Your Houses – Maxwell Anderson 1934: Men in White – Sidney Kingsley 1935: The Old Maid – Zoë Akins 1936: Idiot's Delight – Robert E. Sherwood 1937: You Can't Take it with You – Moss Hart, George S. Kaufman 1938: Our Town – Thornton Wilder 1939: Abe Lincoln in Illinois – Robert E. Sherwood

1940s 1940: The Time of Your Life – William Saroyan 1941: There Shall Be No Night – Robert E. Sherwood 1942: no award 1943: The Skin of Our Teeth – Thornton Wilder 1944: no award 1945: Harvey – Mary Coyle Chase 1946: State of the Union – Russel Crouse, Howard Lindsay 1947: no award 1948: A Streetcar Named Desire – Tennessee Williams 1949: Death of a Salesman * – Arthur Miller

1950s 1950: South Pacific * – Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II, Joshua Logan 1951: no award 1952: The Shrike – Joseph Kramm 1953: Picnic – William Inge 1954: The Teahouse of the August Moon * – John Patrick 1955: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof – Tennessee Williams 1956: The Diary of Anne Frank * – Albert Hackett and Frances Goodrich 1957: Long Day's Journey into Night * – Eugene O'Neill 1958: Look Homeward, Angel – Ketti Frings 1959: J.B. * – Archibald MacLeish

1960s 1960: Fiorello! * – Jerome Weidman, George Abbott, Jerry Bock, and Sheldon Harnick 1961: All the Way Home – Tad Mosel 1962: How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying * – Frank Loesser and Abe Burrows 1963: no award 1964: no award 1965: The Subject Was Roses * – Frank D. Gilroy 1966: no award 1967: A Delicate Balance – Edward Albee 1968: no award 1969: The Great White Hope * – Howard Sackler

1970s 1970: No Place to be Somebody – Charles Gordone 1971: The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds – Paul Zindel 1972: no award 1973: That Championship Season * – Jason Miller 1974: no award 1975: Seascape – Edward Albee 1976: A Chorus Line * – Michael Bennett, Nicholas Dante and James Kirkwood, Jr., Marvin Hamlisch and Edward Kleban 1977: The Shadow Box * – Michael Cristofer 1978: The Gin Game – Donald L. Coburn 1979: Buried Child – Sam Shepard

1980s

1980: Talley's Folly – Lanford Wilson 1981: Crimes of the Heart – Beth Henley 1982: A Soldier's Play – Charles Fuller 1983: 'night, Mother – Marsha Norman True West – Sam Shepard 1984: Glengarry Glen Ross – David Mamet Fool for Love – Sam Shepard Painting Churches – Tina Howe 1985: Sunday in the Park with George – James Lapine and Stephen Sondheim The Dining Room – A. R. Gurney The Gospel at Colonus – Lee Breuer, Bob Telson

1986: no award 1987: Fences * – August Wilson Broadway Bound – Neil Simon A Walk in the Woods – Lee Blessing 1988: Driving Miss Daisy – Alfred Uhry Boy's Life – Howard Korder Talk Radio – Eric Bogosian 1989: The Heidi Chronicles * – Wendy Wasserstein Joe Turner's Come and Gone – August Wilson M. Butterfly – David Henry Hwang

1990s

1990: The Piano Lesson – August Wilson And What of the Night? – María Irene Fornés Love Letters – A. R. Gurney 1991: Lost in Yonkers * – Neil Simon Prelude to a Kiss – Craig Lucas Six Degrees of Separation – John Guare 1992: The Kentucky Cycle – Robert Schenkkan Conversations with My Father – Herb Gardner Miss Evers' Boys – David Feldshuh Two Trains Running – August Wilson Sight Unseen – Donald Margulies 1993: Angels in America: Millennium Approaches * – Tony Kushner The Destiny of Me – Larry Kramer Fires in the Mirror – Anna Deavere Smith 1994: Three Tall Women – Edward Albee Keely and Du – Jane Martin A Perfect Ganesh – Terrence McNally

1995: The Young Man From Atlanta – Horton Foote The Cryptogram – David Mamet Seven Guitars – August Wilson 1996: Rent * – Jonathan Larson A Fair Country – Jon Robin Baitz Old Wicked Songs – Jon Marans 1997: no award Collected Stories – Donald Margulies The Last Night of Ballyhoo – Alfred Uhry Pride's Crossing – Tina Howe 1998: How I Learned to Drive – Paula Vogel Freedomland – Amy Freed Three Days of Rain – Richard Greenberg 1999: Wit – Margaret Edson Running Man – Cornelius Eady and Diedre Murray Side Man * – Warren Leight

2000s

2000: Dinner with Friends – Donald Margulies In the Blood – Suzan-Lori Parks King Hedley II – August Wilson 2001: Proof * – David Auburn The Play About the Baby – Edward Albee The Waverly Gallery – Kenneth Lonergan 2002: Topdog/Underdog – Suzan-Lori Parks The Glory of Living – Rebecca Gilman Yellowman – Dael Orlandersmith 2003: Anna in the Tropics – Nilo Cruz The Goat or Who Is Sylvia? * – Edward Albee Take Me Out * – Richard Greenberg 2004: I Am My Own Wife * – Doug Wright Man from Nebraska – Tracy Letts Omnium Gatherum – Theresa Rebeck and Alexandra Gersten-Vassilaros

2005 Doubt: A Parable * – John Patrick Shanley The Clean House – Sarah Ruhl Thom Pain (based on nothing) – Will Eno 2006: no award Miss Witherspoon – Christopher Durang The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow – Rolin Jones Red Light Winter – Adam Rapp 2007: Rabbit Hole – David Lindsay-Abaire Bulrusher – Eisa Davis Orpheus X – Rinde Eckert Elliot, a Soldier's Fugue – Quiara Alegría Hudes 2008 August: Osage County * – Tracy Letts Dying City – Christopher Shinn Yellow Face – David Henry Hwang 2009 Ruined – Lynn Nottage Becky Shaw – Gina Gionfriddo In the Heights * – Lin-Manuel Miranda and Quiara Alegría Hudes

2010s

• 2010: Next to Normal – Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey
  • Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo – Rajiv Joseph
  • The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity – Kristoffer Diaz
  • In the Next Room (or The Vibrator Play) – Sarah Ruhl
• 2011: Clybourne Park * – Bruce Norris
  • Detroit – Lisa D'Amour
  • A Free Man of Color – John Guare
• 2012: Water by the Spoonful – Quiara Alegría Hudes
  • Other Desert Cities – Jon Robin Baitz
  • Sons of the Prophet – Stephen Karam
• 2013: Disgraced - Ayad Akhtar
  • Rapture, Blister, Burn - Gina Gionfriddo
  • 4000 Miles - Amy Herzog

Multiple winners

Only a few playwrights have been awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama more than once.

• Eugene O'Neill won the prize four times—more than any other playwright. He won in 1920, 1922, 1928, and 1957.
• George S. Kaufman won the award twice, once in 1932 and once in 1937. Both times he won the award for a work with another writer.
• Robert E. Sherwood won the award in 1936, 1939, and 1941.
• Thornton Wilder won in 1938 and 1943.
• Tennessee Williams won the award in 1948 and 1955.
• August Wilson won the award in 1987 and 1990.
• Edward Albee won the award in 1967, 1975 and 1994.

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