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Pulitzer Prize for Drama

1918 - Jesse Lynch Williams, Why Marry?
1919 - no award given
1920 - Eugene O'Neill, Beyond the Horizon
1921 - Zona Gale[?], Miss Lulu Bett
1922 - Eugene O'Neill, Anna Christie
1923 - Owen Davis[?], Icebound
1924 - Hatcher Hughes[?], Hell-Bent Fer Heaven
1925 - Sidney Howard[?], They Knew What They Wanted
1926 - George Kelly[?], Craig's Wife
1927 - Paul Green[?], In Abraham's Bosom
1928 - Eugene O'Neill, Strange Interlude
1929 - Elmer L. Rice[?], Street Scene
1930 - Marc Connelly, The Green Pastures
1931 - Susan Glaspell[?], Alison's House
1932 - George S. Kaufman, Morrie Ryskind[?], Ira Gershwin, Of Thee I Sing
1933 - Maxwell Anderson[?], Both Your Houses
1934 - Sidney Kingsley[?], Men in White
1935 - Zoe Akins[?], The Old Maid
1936 - Robert E. Sherwood[?], Idiots Delight
1937 - Moss Hart, George S. Kaufman, You Can't Take It With You
1938 - Thornton Wilder, Our Town
1939 - Robert E. Sherwood[?], Abe Lincoln in Illinois
1940 - William Saroyan, The Time of Your Life
1941 - Robert E. Sherwood[?], There Shall Be No Night
1942 - no award given
1943 - Thornton Wilder, The Skin of Our Teeth
1944 - no award given
1945 - Mary Chase[?], Harvey
1946 - Russel Crouse[?], Howard Lindsay[?], State of the Union
1947 - no award given
1948 - Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire
1949 - Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman
1950 - Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II, Joshua Logan[?], South Pacific
1951 - no award given
1952 - Joseph Kramm[?], The Shrike
1953 - William Inge, Picnic
1954 - John Patrick[?], The Teahouse of the August Moon
1955 - Tennessee Williams, Cat on A Hot Tin Roof
1956 - Albert Hackett[?], Frances Goodrich[?], Diary of Anne Frank
1957 - Eugene O'Neill, Long Day's Journey Into Night
1958 - Ketti Frings[?], Look Homeward, Angel
1959 - Archibald Macleish[?], J. B.
1960 - Jerome Weidman[?], George Abbott for book' Jerry Bock[?] for music, and Sheldon Harnick[?] for lyrics, Fiorello!'
1961 - Tad Mosel[?], All The Way Home
1962 - Frank Loesser, Abe Burrows[?], How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying
1963 - no award given
1964 - no award given
1965 - Frank D. Gilroy[?], The Subject Was Roses
1966 - no award given
1967 - Edward Albee, A Delicate Balance
1968 - no award given
1969 - Howard Sackler[?], The Great White Hope
1970 - Charles Gordone[?], No Place To Be Somebody
1971 - Paul Zindel[?], The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-In-The-Moon Marigolds
1972 - no award given
1973 - Jason Miller[?], That Championship Season
1974 - no award given
1975 - Edward Albee, Seascape
1976 - Michael Bennett[?] for concept, choreography, and direction; James Kirkwood[?] for book, Marvin Hamlisch[?] for lyrics, Nicholas Dante[?] for music, A Chorus Line
1977 - Michael Cristofer[?], The Shadow Box
1978 - Donald L. Coburn[?], The Gin Game
1979 - Sam Shepard, Buried Child
1980 - Lanford Wilson, Talley's Folly
1981 - Beth Henley[?], Crimes of the Heart
1982 - Charles Fuller[?], A Soldier's Play
1983 - Marsha Norman[?], 'Night, Mother
1984 - David Mamet, Glengarry Glen Ross
1985 - James Lapine[?] for book; Stephen Sondheim for music and lyrics, Sunday in the Park With George
1986 - no award given
1987 - August Wilson, Fences
1988 - Alfred Uhry[?], Driving Miss Daisy
1989 - Wendy Wasserstein[?], The Heidi Chronicles
1990 - August Wilson, The Piano Lesson
1991 - Neil Simon, Lost in Yonkers
1992 - Robert Schenkkan[?], The Kentucky Cycle
1993 - Tony Kushner[?], Angels in America: Millennium Approaches
1994 - Edward Albee, Three Tall Women
1995 - Horton Foote[?], The Young Man From Atlanta
1996 - Jonathan Larson[?], Rent
1997 - no award given
1998 - Paula Vogel[?], How I Learned to Drive
1999 - Margaret Edson[?], Wit
2000 - Donald Margulies[?], Dinner With Friends
2001 - David Auburn[?], Proof
2002 - Suzan-Lori Parks[?], Topdog/Underdog

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