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Pulitzer Prize for Drama

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Jesse Williams

<< 1918 >>

The Pulitzer Prize for Drama is for an America play, preferably original and dealing with American life.

Prize Winners

Winners year-by-year, or publication dates for lists. Click highlighted authors for reference info.

1918:

Jesse Williams, Why Marry?

1920:

Eugene O'Neill, Beyond the Horizon

1921:

Zona Gale, Miss Lulu Bett

1922:

Eugene O'Neill, Anna Christie

1923:

Owen Davis, Icebound

1924:

Hatcher Hughes, Hell-Bent for Heaven

1925:

Sidney Howard, They Knew What They Wanted

1926:

George Kelly, Craig's Wife

1927:

Paul Green, In Abraham's Bosom

1928:

Eugene O'Neill, Strange Interlude

1929:

Elmer Rice, Street Scene

1930:

Marc Connelly, The Green Pastures

1931:

Susan Glaspell, Alison's House

1932:

George S. Kaufman, Of Thee I Sing

1933:

Maxwell Anderson, Both Your Houses

1934:

Sidney Kingsley, Men in White

1935:

Zoe Akins, The Old Maid

1936:

Robert E. Sherwood, Idiot's Delight

1937:

Hart Moss, You Can't Take it With You

1938:

Thornton Wilder, Our Town

1939:

Robert E. Sherwood, Abe Lincoln in Illinois

1940:

William Saroyan, The Time of Your Life

1941:

Robert E. Sherwood, There Shall Be No Night

1943:

Thornton Wilder, The Skin of Our Teeth

1945:

Mary Chase, Harvey

1946:

Russel Crouse, State of the Union

1948:

Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

1949:

Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman

1950:

Richard and Oscar Rodgers and Hammerstein, South Pacific

1952:

Joseph Kramm, The Shrike

1953:

William Inge, Picnic

1954:

John Patrick, Teahouse of the August Moon

1955:

Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

1956:

Albert Hackett, Diary of Anne Frank

1957:

Eugene O'Neill, Long Day's Journey Into Night

1958:

Ketti Frings, Look Homeward, Angel

1959:

Archibald MacLeish, J.B.

1960:

George Abbott, Fiorello!

1961:

Tad Mosel, All the Way Home

1962:

Abe Burrows, How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying

1965:

Frank Gilroy, The Subject Was Roses

1967:

Edward Albee, A Delicate Balance

1969:

Howard Sackler, The Great White Hope

1970:

Charles Gordone, No Place to be Somebody

1971:

Paul Zindel, The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds

1973:

Jason Miller, That Championship Season

1975:

Edward Albee, Seascape

1976:

James Kirkwood, A Chorus Line

1977:

Michael Cristofer, The Shadow Box

1978:

Donald Coburn, The Gin Game

1980:

Lanford Wilson, Talley's Folley

1981:

Beth Henley, Crimes of the Heart

1982:

Charles Fuller, A Soldier's Pay

1983:

Marsha Norman, 'Night, Mother

1984:

David Mamet, Glengarry Glen Ross

1985:

Stephen Sondheim, Sunday in the Park with George

1987:

August Wilson, Fences

1988:

Alfred Uhry, Driving Miss Daisy

1989:

Wendy Wasserstein, The Heidi Chronicles

1990:

August Wilson, The Piano Lesson

1991:

Neil Simon, Lost in Yonkers

1992:

Robert Schenkkan, The Kentucky Cycle

1993:

Tony Kushner, Angels in America: Millennium Approaches

1994:

Edward Albee, Three Tall Women

1995:

Horton Foote, The Young Man From Atlanta

1996:

Jonathan Larson, Rent

1998:

Paul Vogel, How I Learned to Drive

1999:

Margaret Edson, Wit

2000:

Donald Margulies, Dinner With Friends

2000:

Charles Williams, Repair

2001:

David Auburn, Proof

2002:

Susan Parks, Topdog/Underdog

2003:

Nilo Cruz, Anna in the Tropics

2004:

Doug Wright, I Am My Own Wife

2005:

John Shanley, Doubt

2007:

David Abaire, Rabbit Hole

2008:

Tracy Letts, August: Osage County

Titles in Stock

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ALBEE, Edward

A Delicate Balance

WILLIAMS, Tennessee

A Streetcar Named Desire

WILLIAMS, Tennessee

A Streetcar Named Desire

WILLIAMS, Tennessee

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MOSEL, Tad

All the Way Home

WILLIAMS, Tennessee

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

KELLY, George

Craig's Wife: A Drama

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