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Pulitzer Prize Drama
| Year | Play | Author |
|---|---|---|
| 1918 | Why Marry? | Jesse Lynch Williams |
| 1919 | No award | NA |
| 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 for 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 | March Connelly |
| 1931 | Alison's House | Susun Glaspell |
| 1932 | Of Thee I Sing | George S. Kaufman, Morrie Ryskind, and Ira Gershwin, music by George 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 (prize declined) |
| 1941 | The Shall Be No Night | Robert E. Sherwood |
| 1942 | No award | NA |
| 1943 | The Skin of Our Teeth | Thornton Wilder |
| 1944 | No award | NA |
| 1945 | Harvey | Mary Chase |
| 1947 | No award | NA |
| 1948 | a Streetcar Named Desire | Tennessee Williams |
| 1949 | Death of a Salesman | Henry Miller |
| 1950 | South Pacific | Richard Rogers, Oscar Hammerstein II, and Joshua LOgan |
| 1951 | No award | NA |
| 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 | Albert Hackett and Frances Goodrich |
| 1957 | Long Day's Journey into Night | Eugene O' Neil |
| 1958 | Look Homeward, Angel | Ketti Frings |
| 1959 | J.B. | Archibald MacLeish |
| 1960 | Fiorello! | Jerome Weidman and George Abbott (book), Jerry Bock (music), and Sheldon Harnick (lyrics) |
| 1961 | All The Way Home | Tad Mosel |
| 1962 | How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying | Frank Loesser and Abe Burrows |
| 1963 | No Award | NA |
| 1964 | No award | NA |
| 1965 | The Subject was Roses | Frank D. Gilroy |
| 1966 | No award | NA |
| 1967 | A Delicate Balance | Edward Albee |
| 1968 | No Award | NA |
| 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 |
| 1972 | No award | NA |
| 1973 | That Championship Season | Jason Miller |
| 1974 | No award | NA |
| 1975 | Seascape | Edward Albee |
| 1976 | A Chorus Line | James Kirkwood and Nicholas Dante |
| 1977 | That 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 |
| 1986 | No award | NA |
| 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: Millenium Approaches | Tony Kushner |
| 1994 | Three Tall Women | Edward Albee |
| 1995 | The Young Man From Atlanta | Horton Foote |
| 1996 | Rent | Jonathan Larson |
| 1997 | No award | NA |
| 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 Shanley |
| 1946 | State of the Union | Russel Crouse and Howard Lindsay |