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Pulitzer Prize

The Pulitzer Prize in Drama

1917-present

2020s

Winner

A Strange Loop by Michael R. Jackson

WINNER

English by Sanaz Toossi

2010s

Winner

Next to Normal, by Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey

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Clybourne Park, by Bruce Norris

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Water by the Spoonful, by Quiara Algría Hudes

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Disgraced, by Ayad Akhtar

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The Flick, by Annie Baker

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Between Riverside and Crazy, by Stephen Adly Guirgis

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Hamilton, by Lin-Manuel Miranda

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Sweat, by Lynn Nottage

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Cost of Living, by Martyna Majok

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Fairview, by Jackie Sibblies Drury

2000s

Winner

Dinner With Friends, by Donald Margulies

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Proof, by David Auburn

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Topdog/Underdog, by Suzan-Lori Parks

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Anna in the Tropics, by Nilo Cruz

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I Am My Own Wife, by Doug Wright

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Doubt, a Parable, by John Patrick Shanley

Winner

No award given

Winner

Rabbit Hole, by David Lindsay-Abaire

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August : Osage County, by Tracy Letts

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Ruined, by Lynn Nottage

1990s

Winner

The Piano Lesson, by August Wilson

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Lost in Yonkers, by Neil Simon

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The Kentucky Cycle, by Robert Schenkkan

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Angels in America : Millennium Approaches, by Tony Kushner

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Three Tall Women, by Edward Albee

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The Young Man From Atlanta, by Horton Foote

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Rent, by Jonathan Larson

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No award given

Winner

How I Learned to Drive, by Paula Vogel

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Wit, by Margaret Edson

1980s

Winner

Talley's Folly, by Lanford Wilson

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Crimes of the Heart, by Beth Henley

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A Soldier's Play, by Charles Fuller

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Night, Mother, by Marsha Norman

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Glengarry Glen Ross, by David Mamet

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Sunday in the Park With George, by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine

Winner

No award given

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Fences, by August Wilson

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Driving Miss Daisy, by Alfred Uhry

Winner

The Heidi Chronicles, by Wendy Wasserstein

1970s

Winner

No Place To Be Somebody, by Charles Gordone

Winner

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

Winner

No award given

Winner

That Championship Season, by Jason Miller

Winner

No award given

Winner

Seascape, by Edward Albee

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A Chorus Line, by Michael Bennett, James Kirkwood, Jr., Marvin Hamlisch, Nicholas Dante, and Edward Kleban

Winner

The Shadow Box, by Michael Cristofer

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The Gin Game, by Donald L. Coburn

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Buried Child, by Sam Shepard

1960s

Winner

Fiorello!, by Jerome Weidman, George Abbott, Jerry Bock, and Sheldon Harnick

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All the Way Home, by Tad Mosel

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How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, by Frank Loesser and Abe Burrows

Winner

No award given

Winner

No award given

Winner

The Subject Was Roses, by Frank D. Gilroy

Winner

No award given

Winner

A Delicate Balance, by Edward Albee

Winner

No award given

Winner

The Great White Hope, by Howard Sackler

1950s

Winner

South Pacific, by Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II, and Joshua Logan

Winner

No award given

Winner

The Shrike, by Joseph Kramm

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Picnic, by William Inge

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The Teahouse of the August Moon, by John Patrick

Winner

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, by Tennessee Williams

Winner

Diary of Anne Frank, by Albert Hackett and Frances Goodrich

Winner

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

Winner

Look Homeward, Angel, by Ketti Frings

Winner

J. B., by Archibald Macleish

1940s

Winner

The Time of Your Life, by William Saroyan

Winner

There Shall Be No Night, by Robert E. Sherwood

Winner

No award given

Winner

The Skin of Our Teeth, by Thornton Wilder

Winner

No award given

Winner

Harvey, by Mary Chase

Winner

State of the Union, by Russel Crouse and Howard Lindsay

Winner

No award given

Winner

A Streetcar Named Desire, by Tennessee Williams

Winner

Death of a Salesman, by Arthur Miller

1930s

Winner

The Green Pastures, by Marc Connelly

Winner

Alison's House, by Susan Glaspell

Winner

Of Thee I Sing, by George S. Kaufman, Morrie Ryskind, and Ira Gershwin

Winner

Both Your Houses, by Maxwell Anderson

Winner

Men in White, by Sidney Kingsley

Winner

The Old Maid, by Zoe Akins

Winner

Idiots Delight, by Robert F. Sherwood

Winner

You Can't Take It With You, by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman

Winner

Our Town, by Thornton Wilder

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Abe Lincoln in Illinois, by Robert F. Sherwood

1920s

Winner

Beyond the Horizon, by Eugene O'Neill

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Miss Lulu Bett, by Zona Gale

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Anna Christie, by Eugene O'Neill

Winner

Icebound, by Owen Davis

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Hell-Bent Fer Heaven, by Hatcher Hughes

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They Knew What They Wanted, by Sidney Howard

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Craig's Wife, by George Kelly

Winner

In Abraham's Bosom, by Paul Green

Winner

Strange Interlude, by Eugene O'Neill

Winner

Street Scene, by Elmer L. Rice

1910s

Winner

Why Marry?, by Jesse Lynch Williams