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Pulitzer Prize Winning Plays and
Playwrights
The Pulitzer Prizes were created and funded by the publisher of the New York World, Joseph Pulitzer (1847-1911). The awards are administered by Columbia University and presented yearly by its president on the recommendation of the Pulitzer Prize Board. The award for drama is given for an American play, with preference going to those works that depict American life. April 10, 2017 update: With the historical rap musical Hamilton taking the 2016 prize in 2010, we can now count 9 musicals among the prize winners, beginning with George and Ira Gershwin's Of Thee I Sing in 1932. Between that and Next to Normal we have: Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific (1950), Bock & Harnick's Fiorello! (1960), Frank Loesser's How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (1962), Michael Bennett's A Chorus Line (1976), Stephen Sondheim's and James Lapine's Sunday in the Park with George (1985) and Jonathan Larson's Rent (1996). and Next to Normal (2010) Years not listed in the complete list below indicate that no awards were made: 2020:Hot Wing King by Katori Hall 2019: Fairview by Jackie Sibblies Drury 2018: Cost of Living by Martyna Majok 2017: Sweat by Lynn Nottage (who also won the prize in 2009 for Ruined 2016: Hamilton by Lin-Manuel Miranda 2015: Between Riverside and Crazy by Stephen Adly Guirgis 2014: The Flick by Annie Baker 2013: Disgraced by Ayad Akhtar 2012: Water by the Spoonful by Quiara Alegria Hudes 2011: Clybourne Park by Bruce Norris 2010: Next to Normal Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey 2009: Ruined Lynn Nottage 2008: August: Osage County Tracy Letts 2007: Rabbit Hole David Lindsay-Abaire 2006: No Award 2005: DoubtJohn Patrick Shanley 2004: I Am My Own Wife Douglas Wright 2003: Anna in the TropicsNilo Cruz 2002: Topdog/Underdog Suzan-Lori Parks 2001: Proof David Auburn 2000: Dinner With Friends Donald Margulies 1999: Wit, Margaret Edson 1998: How I Learned to Drive, Paula Vogel 1997: No award 1996: Rent, Jonathan Larson 1995: The Young Man From Atlanta by Horton Foote 1994: Three Tall Women by Edward Albee 1993: Angels in America, Tony Kushner 1992: The Kentucky Cycle, Robert Schenkkan 1991: Lost in Yonkers, Neil Simon 1990: The Piano Lesson, August Wilson 1989: The Heidi Chronicles, Wendy Wasserstein 1988: Driving Miss Daisy, Alfred Uhry 1987: Fences, August Wilson 1986: No award 1985: Sunday in the Park With George, James Lapine 1984: Glengarry Glen Ross, David Mamet 1983: Night, Mother, Marsha Norman 1982: A Soldier's Play, Charles Fuller 1981: Crimes of the Heart, Beth Henley 1980: Talley's Folly, Lanford Wilson 1979: Buried Child, Sam Shepard 1978: The Gin Game, Donald L. Coburn 1977: The Shadow Box, Michael Cristofer 1976: A Chorus Line, James Kirkwood and Nicholas Dante 1975: Seascape, Edward Albee 1974: No award 1973: That Championship Season, Jason Miller 1972: No award 1971: The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-In-The-Moon Marigolds, Paul Zindel 1970: No Place to be Somebody, Charles Gordone 1969: The Great White Hope, Howard Sackler 1967: A Delicate Balance, Edward Albee 1966: No award 1965: The Subject Was Roses, Frank D. Gilroy 1964: No award 1963: No award 1962: How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, Frank Loesser, Abe Burrows, Willie Gilbert, Jack Weinstock 1961: All the Way Home, Tad Mosel 1960: Fiorello!, Jerome Weidman and George Abbott 1959: J.B., Archibald MacLeish 1958: Look Homeward Angel, Ketti Frings 1957: Long Day's Journey into Night, Eugene O'Neill 1956: Diary of Anne Frank, Albert Hackett and Frances Goodrich 1955: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Tennessee Williams 1954: The Teahouse of the August Moon, John Patrick 1953: Picnic, William Inge 1952: The Shriker, Joseph Kramm 1951: No award 1950: South Pacific, by Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II and Joshua Logan 1949: Death of a Salesman, Arthur Miller 1948: A Streetcar Named Desire, Tennessee Williams 1947: No Award 1946: State of the Union, Russell Crouse and Howard Lindsay 1945: Harvey, Mary Chase 1944: No award 1943: The Skin of Our Teeth, Thornton Wilder 1942: No award 1941: There Shall Be No Night, Robert E. Sherwood 1940: The Time of Your Life, William Saroyan (awarded but refused by the playwright) 199: Abe Lincoln in Illinois, Robert E. Sherwood 1938: Our Town, Thornton Wilder 1937: You Can't Take It With You, Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman 1936: Idiot's Delight, Robert E. Sherwood 1935: The Old Maid, Zoe Akins 1934: Men in White, Sidney Kingsley 1933: Both Your Houses, Maxwell Anderson 1932: Of Thee I Sing, George S. Kaufman, Morrie Ryskind and Ira Gershwin 1931: Alison's House, Susan Glaspell 1930: The Green Pastures, Marc Connelly 1929: Street Scene, Elmer L. Rice 1928: Strange Interlude, Eugene O'Neill 1927: In Abraham's Bosom, Paul E. Green 1926: Craig's Wife, George Kelly 1925: They Knew What They Wanted, Sidney Howard 1924: Hell-Bent Fer Heaven, Hatcher Hughes 1923: Icebound, Owen Davis 1922: Anna Christie, Eugene O'Neill 1921: Miss Lulu Bett, Zona Gale 1920: Beyond the Horizon, Eugene O'Neill 1918: Why Marry, Jesse Lynch Williams src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> |
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