PULITZER PRIZE IN DRAMA 1918 - 2015

The Pulitzer Prize named for American journalist and publisher Joseph Pulitzer was established in
1917, a stipulation of Pulitzer's will. The first Pulitzer Prize in Drama was awarded in 1918 to Jesse
Lynch Williams' Why Marry?

The complete list of Pulitzer Prize in Drama winners is listed below:

2015: Between Riverside and Crazy by Stephen Adly Guirgis
Finalists: Father Comes Home from the Wars Suzan-Lori Parks
2014: The Flick by Anne Baker
Finalists: Fun Home by Lisa Kron & Jeanine Tesori
2013: Disgraced by Ayad Akhtar
2012: Water by the Spoonful by Quiara Alegria Hudes
Finalists: Other Desert Cities by Jon Robin Baitz
Sons of the Prophet by Stephen Karam
2011: Clybourne Park by Bruce Norris
2010: Next to Normal music by Tom Kitt, book & lyrics by Brian Yorkey
2009: Ruined by Lynn Nottage
Finalists: Becky Shaw by Gina Gionfriddo / In The Heights
2008: August: Osage County by Tracy Letts
Finalists: Yellow Face by David Henry Hwang
Dying City by Christopher Shinn
2007: Rabbit Hole by David Lindsay-Abaire
2006: No award
Finalists: Red Light Winter by Adam Rapp
2005: Doubt, by John Patrick Shanley
Finalists: The Clearn House by Sarah Ruhl
2004: I Am My Own Wife, by Doug Wright
2003: Anna in the Tropics, by Nilo Cruz
Finalists: Take Me Out by Richard Greenberg
The Goat or Who is Sylvia? By Edward Albee
2002: Topdog/Underdog, by Suzan-Lori Parks
Finalists: The Glory of Living by Rebecca Gilman
2001: Proof, by David Auburn
The Play About the Baby by Edward Albee
2000: Dinner with Friends, by Donald Margulies
Finalists: King Hedley II by August Wilson
1999: Wit, by Margaret Edson
Finalists: Side Man by Warren Leight
1998: How I Learned To Drive, by Paula Vogel
Finalists: Three Days of Rain by Richard Greenberg
1997: No award
Finalists: Collected Stories by Donald Margulies
The Last Night of Ballyhoo by Alfred Uhry
Prides Crossing by Tnia Howe
1996: Rent, by Jonathan Larson
1995: The Young Man From Atlanta, by Horton Foote
Finalists: Seven Guitars by August Wilson
1994: Three Tall Women, by Edward Albee
1993: Angels in America: Millennium Approaches, by Tony Kushner
Finalists: Fires in the Mirror by Anna Deavere Smith
1992: The Kentucky Cycle, by Robert Schenkkan
Finalists: Sight Unseen by Donald Margulies
Conversations With My Father by Herb Gardner
Two Trains Running by August Wilson
Miss Evers Boys by David Feldshuh
 Page 2
1991: Lost in Yonkers, by Neil Simon
Finalists: Prelude to a Kiss by Craig Lucas
Six Dregrees of Separation by John Guare
1990: The Piano Lesson, by August Wilson
Finalists: Love Letters by A.R. Gurney
1989: The Heidi Chronicles, by Wendy Wasserstein
Finalists: The Piano Lesson by August Wilson
M Butterfly by David Henry Hwang
1988: Driving Miss Daisy, by Alfred Uhry
Finalists: Talk Radio by Eric Bogosian
Boys Life by Howard Korder
1987: Fences, by August Wilson
Finalists: Broadway Bound by Neil Simon
A Walk in the Woods by Lee Blessing
1986: No award
1985: Sunday in the Park With George, by James Lapine and Stephen Sondheim
1984: Glengarry Glen Ross, by David Mamet
Finalists: Fool for Love by Same Shepard
Painting Churches by Tina Howe
1983: 'night, Mother, by Marsha Norman
Finalists: True West by Sam Shepard
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 D.L. Coburn
1977: The Shadow Box, by Michael Cristofer
1976: A Chorus Line, by Michael Bennett, James Kirkwood, Nicholas Dante,
Marvin Hamlisch and Edward Kleban
1975: Seascape, by Edward Albee
1974: No award
1973: That Championship Season, by Jason Miller
1972: No award
1971: 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 Abe Burrows,
Willie Gilbert, Jack Weinstock and Frank Loesser
1961: All the Way Home, by Tad Mosel
1960: Fiorello!, by Jerome Weidman, George Abbott, Sheldon Harnick and Jerry Bock
1959: J.B., by Archibald MacLeish
1958: Look Homeward, Angel, by Ketti Frings
1957: Long Day's Journey Into Night, by Eugene ONeill
1956: The Diary of Anne Frank by Hackett and 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 Strike by Joseph Kramm
 Page 3
1951: No award
1950: South Pacific By Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II & 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 Russel Crouse & 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 Cant Take It With You by Hart and Kaufman
1936: Idiots 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 Kaufman, Ryskind, Gershin
1931: Allisons House by Susan Glaspell
1930: The Green Pastures by Marc Connelly
1929: Street Scene by Elmer Rice
1928: Strange Interlude by Eugene ONeill
1927: In Abrahams Bosom by Paul Green
1926: Craigs Wife by George Kelly
1925: They Knew What They Wanted by Sidney Howard
1924: Hell-Bent For Heaven by Hatcher Hughes
1923: Icebound by Owen Davis
1922: Anna Christie by Eugene ONeill
1921: Miss Lulu Bett by Zona Gale
1920: Beyond the Horizon by Eugene ONeill
1919: No award
1918: Why Marry? By Jesse Lynch Williams
1917: No award