The Pulitzer Prize for Drama
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1917 No award
1918 Why marry? by Jesse Lynch Williams
1919 No award
1920 Beyond the horizon by Eugene O'Neill
1921 Miss Lulu Bett by Zona Gale
1922 Anna Christie by Eugene O'Neill
1923 Icebound by Owen Davis
1924 Hell-bent fer Heaven by Hatcher Hughes
1925 They knew what they wanted by Sidney Howard
1926 Craig's Wife by George Kelly
1927 In Abraham's bosom by Paul Green
1928 Strange interlude by Eugene O'Neill
1929 Street scene by Elmer L. Rice
1930 The green pastures by Marc Connelly
1931 Alison's house by Susan Glaspell
1932 Of thee I sing by George S. Kaufman, Morrie Ryskind and Ira Gershwin
1933 Both your houses by Maxwell Anderson
1934 Men in white by Sidney Kingsley
1935 The old maid by Zoe Akins
1936 Idiot's delight by Robert E. Sherwood
1937 You can't take it with you by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman
1938 Our town by Thornton Wilder
1939 Abe Lincoln in Illinois, a play in twelve scenes by Robert E. Sherwood
1940 The time of your life by William Saroyan
1941 There shall be no night by Robert E. Sherwood
1942 No award
1943 The skin of our teeth by Thornton Wilder
1944 No award
1945 Harvey by Mary Chase
1946 State of the union by Russel Crouse and Howard Lindsay
1947 No award
1948 A streetcar named Desire by Tennessee Williams
1949 Death of a salesman by Arthur Miller
1950 South Pacific by Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein, 2d and Joshua Logan (vocal selections)
1951 No award
1952 The shrike by Joseph Kramm
1953 Picnic : a summer romance in three acts by William Inge
1954 The teahouse of the August moon by John Patrick
1955 Cat on a hot tin roof by Tennessee Williams
1956 The diary of Anne Frank by Albert Hackett and Frances Goodrich
1957 Long day's journey into night by Eugene O'Neill
1958 Look homeward, angel by Ketti Frings
1959 J. B. by Archibald Macleish
1960 Fiorello! Book by Jerome Weidman and George Abbott; music by Jerry Bock; lyrics by Sheldon Harnick
1961 All the way home by Tad Mosel
1962 How to succeed in business without really trying by Frank Loesser and Abe Burrows (vocal selections)(CD)
1963 No award
1964 No award
1965 The subject was roses by Frank D. Gilroy
1966 No award
1967 A delicate balance by Edward Albee
1968 No award
1969 The great white hope by Howard Sackler
1970 No place to be somebody by Charles Gordone
1971 The effect of gamma rays on man-in-the-moon marigolds by Paul Zindel
1972 No award
1973 That championship season by Jason Miller
1974 No award
1975 Seascape by Edward Albee
1976 A chorus line, conceived, choreographed and directed by Michael Bennett; book by James Kirkwood and Nicholas Dante; music by Marvin Hamlisch; lyrics by Edward Kleban. (CD)
1977 The shadow box by Michael Cristofer
1978 The gin game by Donald L. Coburn
1979 Buried child by Sam Shepard
1980 Talley's folly by Lanford Wilson
1981 Crimes of the heart by Beth Henley
1982 A soldier's play by Charles Fuller
1983 'night, mother by Marsha Norman
1984 Glengarry Glen Ross by David Mamet
1985 Sunday in the park with George, Music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim; book by James Lapine (CD)
1986 No award
1987 Fences by August Wilson
1988 Driving Miss Daisy by Alfred Uhry
1989 The Heidi chronicles by Wendy Wasserstein
1990 The piano lesson by August Wilson
1991 Lost in Yonkers by Neil Simon
1992 The Kentucky cycle by Robert Schenkkan
1993 Angels in America : a gay fantasia on national themes, part 1 : Millennium approaches by Tony Kushner
1994 Three tall women by Edward Albee
1995 The young man from Atlanta by Horton Foote
1996 Rent by Jonathan Larson (CD)
1997 No award
1998 How I learned to drive by Paula Vogel
1999 Wit by Margaret Edson
2000 Dinner with friends by Donald Margulies
2001 Proof by David Auburn
2002 Topdog/underdog by Suzan-Lori Parks
2003 Anna in the tropics by Nilo Cruz
2004 I am my own wife : studies for a play about the life of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf by Doug Wright
2005 Doubt : a parable by John Patrick Shanley
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, music by Tom Kitt, book and lyrics by Brian Yorkey (vocal selections)(CD)
2011 Clybourne Park by Bruce Norris
2012 Water by the spoonful by Quiara Alegrķa Hudes
2013 Disgraced by Ayad Akhtar
2014 The flick by Annie Baker
2015 Between Riverside and crazy by Stephen Adly Guirgis
2016 Hamilton by Lin-Manuel Miranda (CD)
2017 Sweat by Lynn Nottage
2018 Cost of living by Martyna Majok