Pulitzer Prize: Letters: Drama

The Pulitzer Prizes are annual awards for achievements in American journalism, letters, drama and music. The prizes have been awarded by the Pulitzer Prize Board at Columbia University since 1917.

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

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