Pulitzer Prize for Drama
| Year | Author(s) | Publication/Work |
|---|---|---|
| 1917 | No Award | No Award |
| 1918 | Jesse Lynch Williams | Why Marry? |
| 1919 | No Award | 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 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 L. Rice | Street Scene |
| 1930 | Marc Connelly | The Green Pastures |
| 1931 | Susan Glaspell | Alison's House |
| 1932 | George S. Kaufman, Morrie Ryskind and Ira Gershwin | 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 | Idiots Delight |
| 1937 | Moss Hart and 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 | No Award |
| 1943 | Thornton Wilder | The Skin of Our Teeth |
| 1944 | No Award | No Award |
| 1945 | Mary Chase | Harvey |
| 1946 | Russel Crouse and Howard Lindsay | State of the Union |
| 1947 | No Award | No Award |
| 1948 | Tennessee Williams | A Streetcar Named Desire |
| 1949 | Arthur Miller | Death of a Salesman |
| 1950 | Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein, 2nd and Joshua Logan | South Pacific |
| 1951 | No Award | 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 and 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 | Book by Jerome Weidman and George Abbott, Music By Jerry Bock and Lyrics by Sheldon Harnick | 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 | No Award |
| 1964 | No Award | No Award |
| 1965 | Frank D. Gilroy | The Subject Was Roses |
| 1966 | No Award | No Award |
| 1967 | Edward Albee | A Delicate Balance |
| 1968 | No Award | 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 | No Award |
| 1973 | Jason Miller | That Championship Season |
| 1974 | No Award | No Award |
| 1975 | Edward Albee | Seascape |
| 1976 | Conceived, choreographed and directed by Michael Bennett, with book by James Kirkwood and Nicholas Dante, music by Marvin Hamlisch, and lyrics by Edward Kleban | 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 | Music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, book by James Lapine | Sunday in the Park With George |
| 1986 | No Award | 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 | the late Jonathan Larson | Rent |
| 1997 | No Award | No Award |
| 1998 | How I Learned to Drive | Paula Vogel |
| 1999 | Wit | Margaret Edson |