Pulitzer Prize: Drama

• 2008 August: Osage County Tracy Letts
• 2007 Rabbit Hole David Lindsay-Abaire
• 2006 no award
• 2005 Doubt, a parable John Patrick Shanley
• 2004 I am my own wife Doug Wright
• 2003 Anna in the Tropics Nilo 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 the late Jonathan Larson
• 1995 Young man from Atlanta Horton Foote
• 1994 Three tall women Edward Albee
• 1993 Angels in America: Millennium approaches 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 music and lyrics Stephen Sondheim, book James Lapine
• 1984 Glengarry Glen Ross David Mamet
• 1983 Night Mother Marsha Norman
• 1982 A Soldiers play Charles Fuller
• 1981 Crimes of the heart Beth Henley
• 1980 Talleys 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 conceived, choreographed and directed Michael Bennett, with book by James Kirkwood and Nicholas Dante, music Marvin Hamlisch and lyrics Edward Kleban
• 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
• 1968 No Award
• 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 and Abe Burrows
• 1961 All the way home Tad Mosel
• 1960 Fiorello! book Jerome Weidman and George Abbott, music Jerry Bock and lyrics Sheldon Harnick
• 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 Shrike Joseph Kramm
• 1951 No Award
• 1950 South Pacific 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
• 1939 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 Alisons 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
• 1919 No Award
• 1918 Why Marry Jesse Lynch Williams
• 1917 No Award