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.

## Other websites

- Pulitzer Prize for Drama