Pulitzer Prize for Drama, 1918-2005

Year Author (Dates) Prize Play
2005 John Patrick Shanley (1950- ) Doubt, a parable (2004)
2004 Doug Wright (1963) I Am My Own Wife (2003)
2003 Nilo Cruz (1960- ) Anna in the Tropics (2002)
2002 Suzan-Lori Parks (1964- ) Topdog/Underdog (2001)
2001 David Auburn (1970- ) Proof (2000)
     
2000 Douglas Margulies (1955- ) Dinner with Friends (1999)
1999 Margaret Edson (1961- ) Wit (1998)
1998 Paula Vogel (1952- ) How I Learned to Drive (1997)
1997 No Award  
1996 Jonathan Larson (1960-1996) Rent (1995)
1995 Horton Foote (1916- ) The Young Man from Atlanta (1994)
1994 Edward Albee (1928- ) Three Tall Women (1993)
1993 Tony Kushner (1956- ) Angels in America: Millennium Approaches (1992)
1992 Robert Schenkkan (1917- ) The Kentucky Cycle (1991)
1991 Neil Simon (1927- ) Lost in Yonkers (1990)
     
1990 August Wilson (1945- ) The Piano Lesson (1989)
1989 Wendy Wasserstein (1950- ) The Heidi Chronicles (1988)
1988 Alfred Uhry (1936- ) Driving Miss Daisy (1987)
1987 August Wilson (1945- ) Fences (1986)
1986 No Award  
1985 Stephen Sondheim (1930- ) and James Lapine (1949- ) Sunday in the Park with George (1984)
1984 David Mamet (1947- ) Glengarry Glen Ross (1983)
1983 Marsha Norman (1947- ) 'Night, Mother (1982)
1982 Charles Fuller (1939- ) A Soldier's Play (1981)
1981 Beth Henley (Elizabeth Becker Henley) (1952- ) Crimes of the Heart (1980)
     
1980 Lanford Wilson (1937- ) Talley's Folly (1979)
1979 Sam Shepard (1943- ) Buried Child (1978)
1978 Donald Lee Coburn (1938- ) The Gin Game (1977)
1977 Michael Cristofer (1945- ) The Shadow Box (1976)
1976 Michael Bennett (1943-1987), James Kirkwood, Jr. (1924-1989), Nicholas Dante (1942-1991), Marvin Hamlisch (1944- ), and Edward Kleban (1939-1987) A Chorus Line (1975)
1975 Edward Albee (1928- ) Seascape (1974)
1974 No Award  
1973 Jason Miller (1939- ) The Championship Season (1972)
1972 No Award  
1971 Paul Zindel (1936- ) The Effects of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds (1970)
     
1970 Charles Gordone (1925-1995) No Place to Be Somebody (1969)
1969 Howard Sackler (1929-1982) The Great White Hope (1968)
1968 No Award  
1967 Edward Albee (1928- ) A Delicate Balance (1966)
1966 No Award  
1965 Frank D. Gilroy (1925- ) The Subject Was Roses (1964)
1964 No Award  
1963 No Award  
1962 Frank Loesser (1910-1969) and Abe Burrows (Abram Solman Borowitz) (1910-1985) How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying (1961)
1961 Tad Mosel (1922- ) All the Way Home (1960)
     
1960 Jerome Weidman (1913-1998), and George Abbott (1887-1995), Jerry Bock (1928- ), and Sheldon Harnick (1924- ) Fiorello! (1959)
1959 Archibald MacLeish (1892-1982) J. B. (1958)
1958 Ketti Frings (aka Katherine Hartley Frings) (1915-1981) Look Homeward, Angel (1957)
1957 Eugene O'Neill (1888-1953) Long Day's Journey into Night (1956)
1956 Albert Hackett (1900-1995) and Frances Goodrich (1890-1984) The Diary of Anne Frank (1955)
1955 Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1954)
1954 John Patrick (1903-1995) The Teahouse of the August Moon (1953)
1953 William Inge (1913-1973) Picnic (1952)
1952 Joseph Kramm (1915- ) The Shrike (1951)
1951 No Award  
     
1950 Richard Rodgers (1902-1979), Oscar Hammerstein II (1895-1960), and Joshua Logan (1908-1988) South Pacific (1949)
1949 Arthur Miller (1915- ) Death of a Salesman (1948)
1948 Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) A Streetcar Named Desire (1947)
1947 No Award  
1946 Russel Crouse (1893-1966) and Howard Lindsay (1889-1968) State of the Union (1945)
1945 Mary Coyle Chase (1907-1981) Harvey (1944)
1944 No Award  
1943 Thornton Niven Wilder (1897-1975) The Skin of Our Teeth (1942)
1942 No Award  
1941 Robert Emmet Sherwood (1897-1955) There Shall Be No Night (1940)
     
1940 William Saroyan* (1908-1981) The Time of Your Life (1939)
1939 Robert Emmet Sherwood (1896-1955) Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1938)
1938 Thornton Niven Wilder (1897-1975) Our Town (1937)
1937 Moss Hart (1904-1961) and George Simon Kaufman (1889-1961) You Can't Take It with You (1936)
1936 Robert Emmet Sherwood (1896-1955) Idiot's Delight (1935)
1935 Zöe Atkins (1886-1958) The Old Maid (1934)
1934 Sidney Kingsley (1907-1995) Men in White (1933)
1933 Maxwell Anderson (1888-1959) Both Your Houses (1932)
1932 George Simon Kaufman (1889-1961), Morrie Ryskind (1895-1985), and Ira Gershwin (1896-1983) Of Thee I Sing (1931)
1931 Susan Glaspell (1882-1948) Alison's House (1930)
     
1930 Marcus Cook Connelly (1890-1980) The Green Pastures (1929)
1929 Elmer Leopold Rice (1892-1967) Street Scene (1928)
1928 Eugene O'Neill (1888-1953) Strange Interlude (1927)
1927 Paul Eliot Green (1894-1981) In Abraham's Bosom (1926)
1926 George Kelly (1887-1974) Craig's Wife (1925)
1925 Sidney Coe Howard (1891-1939) They Knew What They Wanted (1924)
1924 Harvey Hatcher Hughes (1881-1945) Hell-Bent fer Heaven (1923)
1923 Owen Gould Davis (1874-1956) Icebound (1922)
1922 Eugene O'Neill (1888-1953) Anna Christie (1921)
1921 Zona Gale (1874-1938) Miss Lulu Bett (1920)
     
1920 Eugene O'Neill (1888-1953) Beyond the Horizon (1919)
1919 No Award  
1918 Jesse Lynch Williams (1871-1929) Why Marry? (1917)
  *Declined Award  

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