A list of Pulitzer Prize winners in Drama, from 1918 to the present.
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The Pulitzer Prizes, established and endowed by Joseph Pulitzer (1847–1911), honour excellence in American literature, journalism, drama and music. The prizes, administered by Columbia University, bestow on winners both literary prestige and a cash prize.
For years not listed, no award was made.
- 1918
- Why Marry?, Jesse Lynch Williams
- 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 L. Rice
- 1930
- The Green Pastures, Marc Connelly
- 1931
- Alison's House, Susan Glaspell
- 1932
- Of Thee I Sing, George S. Kaufman, Morrie Ryskind, and Ira Gershwin
- 1933
- Both Your Houses, Maxwell Anderson
- 1934
- Men in White, Sidney Kingsley
- 1935
- The Old Maid, Zoe Akins
- 1936
- Idiot's Delight, Robert E. Sherwood
- 1937
- You Can't Take It With You, Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman
- 1938
- Our Town, Thornton Wilder
- 1939
- Abe Lincoln in Illinois, Robert E. Sherwood
- 1940
- The Time of Your Life, William Saroyan
- 1941
- There Shall Be No Night, Robert E. Sherwood
- 1943
- The Skin of Our Teeth, Thornton Wilder
- 1945
- Harvey, Mary Chase
- 1946
- State of the Union, Russel Crouse and Howard Lindsay
- 1948
- A Streetcar Named Desire, Tennessee Williams
- 1949
- Death of a Salesman, Arthur Miller
- 1950
- South Pacific, Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II, and Joshua Logan
- 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, Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett
- 1957
- Long Day's Journey Into Night, Eugene O'Neill
- 1958
- Look Homeward, Angel, Ketti Frings
- 1959
- J. B. Archibald MacLeish
- 1960
- Fiorello! George Abbott, Jerome Weidman, 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
- 1965
- The Subject Was Roses, Frank D. Gilroy
- 1967
- A Delicate Balance, Edward Albee
- 1969
- The Great White Hope, Howard Sackler
- 1970
- No Place to Be Somebody, Charles Gordone
- 1971
- The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, Paul Zindel
- 1973
- That Championship Season, Jason Miller
- 1975
- Seascape, Edward Albee
- 1976
- A Chorus Line, Conceived by Michael Bennett
- 1977
- The Shadow Box, Michael Cristofer
- 1978
- The Gin Game, Donald L. Coburn
- 1979
- Buried Child, Sam Shepard
- 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
- 1984
- Glengarry Glen Ross, David Mamet
- 1985
- Sunday in the Park with George, Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine
- 1987
- Fences, August Wilson
- 1988
- Driving Miss Daisy, Alfred Uhry
- 1989
- The Heidi Chronicles, Wendy Wasserstein
- 1990
- The Piano Lesson, August Wilson
- 1991
- Lost in Yonkers, Neil Simon
- 1992
- The Kentucky Cycle, Robert Schenkkan
- 1993
- Angels in America: Millennium Approaches, Tony Kushner
- 1994
- Three Tall Women, Edward Albee
- 1995
- The Young Man from Atlanta, Horton Foote
- 1996
- Rent, Jonathan Larson
- 1998
- How I Learned to Drive, Paula Vogel
- 1999
- Wit, Margaret Edson
- 2000
- Dinner with Friends, Donald Margulies
- 2001
- Proof, David Auburn
- 2002
- Topdog/Underdog, Suzan-Lori Parks
- 2003
- Anna in the Tropics, Nilo Cruz
- 2004
- I Am My Own Wife, Doug Wright
- 2005
- Doubt, a parable, John Patrick Shanleys
- 2006
- No Award
- 2007
- Rabbit Hole by David Lindsay-Abaire
- 2008
- August: Osage County by Tracy Letts
- 2009
- Ruined by Lynn Nottage
- 2010
- Next to Normal by Tom Kitt (music) and Brian Yorkey (book and lyrics)
- 2011
- Clybourne Park by Bruce Norris
- 2012
- Water by the Spoonful by Quiara Alegría Hudes
- 2013
- Disgraced by Ayad Akhtar
- 2014
- The Flick by Annie Baker
- 2015
- Between Riverside and Crazy by Stephen Adly Guirgis
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