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 awardThe Pulitzer committee recommended Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? *, but the Pulitzer board, who have sole discretion in awarding the prize, rejected the recommendation, due to the play's perceived vulgarity, and no award was given instead.  Klein, Alvin. "Albee's 'Tiny Alice,' The Whole Enchilada." The New York Times 24 May 1998: CT11.
 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.

References

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