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 - Zoe 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? - Maria Irene Fornes
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 Alegria 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 Alegria 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 Alegria 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.