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.

## References
## Other websites
*Pulitzer Prize for Drama