HONOR

The Pulitzer Prize for Drama, awarded since 1918.

1918	Jesse Lynch Williams	Why Marry
1919	(no award)
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 Fer Heaven
1925	Sidney Coe 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, Morrie Ryskind, Ira Gershwin	Of Thee I Sing
1933	Maxwell Anderson	Both Your Houses
1934	Sidney Kingsley	Men in White
1935	Zoë Akins	The Old Maid
1936	Robert E. Sherwood	Idiot's Delight
1937	Moss Hart, George S. Kaufman	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
1942	(no award)
1943	Thornton Wilder	The Skin of Our Teeth
1944	(no award)
1945	Mary Chase	Harvey
1946	Russel Crouse and Howard Lindsay	State of the Union
1947	(no award)
1948	Tennessee Williams	A Streetcar Named Desire
1949	Arthur Miller	Death of a Salesman
1950	Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II, Joshua Logan	South Pacific
1951	(no award)
1952	Joseph Kramm	The Shrike
1953	William Inge	Picnic
1954	John Patrick	The Teahouse of the August Moon
1955	Tennessee Williams	Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
1956	Albert Hackett	Frances Goodrich, 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	Jerome Weidman (book), George Abbott (book); Jerry Bock (music), Sheldon Harnick (lyrics)	Fiorello!
1961	Tad Mosel	All The Way Home
1962	Frank Loesser and Abe Burrows	How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying
1963	(no award)
1964	(no award)
1965	Frank D. Gilroy	The Subject Was Roses
1966	(no award)
1967	Edward Albee	A Delicate Balance
1968	(no award)
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
1972	(no award)
1973	Jason Miller	That Championship Season
1974	(no award)
1975	Edward Albee	Seascape
1976	Michael Bennett (concept, choreography, direction), James Kirkwood (book), Marvin Hamlisch (lyrics), Nicholas Dante (music)	A Chorus Line
1977	Michael Cristofer	The Shadow Box
1978	Donald L. Coburn	The Gin Game
1979	Sam Shepard	Buried Child
1980	Lanford Wilson	Talley's Folly
1981	Beth Henley	Crimes of the Heart
1982	Charles Fuller	A Soldier's Play
1983	Marsha Norman	'Night, Mother
1984	David Mamet	Glengarry Glen Ross
1985	James Lapine (book), Stephen Sondheim (music, lyrics)	Sunday in the Park with George
1986	(no award)
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
1997	(no award)
1998	Paula Vogel	How I Learned to Drive
1999	Margaret Edson	Wit
2000	Donald Margulies	Dinner With Friends
2001	David Auburn	Proof
2002	Suzan-Lori Parks	Topdog/Underdog
2003	Nilo Cruz	Anna in the Tropics
2004	Doug Wright	I Am My Own Wife
2005	John Patrick Shanley	Doubt: A Parable
2006	(no award)
2007	David Lindsay-Abaire	Rabbit Hole
2008	Tracy Letts	August: Osage County

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