I am in the process of reading every play which has received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. I have read 89 of the 89.

• 89 plays awarded
• 89 plays read – 100% of total (listed in italics)
• 35 plays seen – 39.3% of total (listed in bold)

• 1917 (No Award)
• 1918 Why Marry? – Jesse Lynch Williams
• 1919 (No Award)

• 1920 Beyond the Horizon – Eugene O’Neill
• 1921 Miss Lulu Bett – Zona Gale
• 1922 Anna Christie – Eugene O’Neill
• 1923 Icebound – Owen Davis
• 1924 Hell-Bent Fer Heaven – Hatcher Hughes
• 1925 They Knew What They Wanted – Sidney Howard
• 1926 Craig’s Wife – George Kelly
• 1927 In Abraham’s Bosom – Paul Green
• 1928 Strange Interlude – Eugene O’Neill
• 1929 Street Scene – Elmer Rice

• 1930 The Green Pastures – Marc Connelly
• 1931 Alison’s House – Susan Glaspell
• 1932 Of Thee I Sing – George S. Kaufman, Morrie Ryskind, Ira Gershwin**
• 1933 Both Your Houses – Maxwell Anderson
• 1934 Men in White – Sidney Kingsley
• 1935 The Old Maid – Zoe Akins
• 1936 Idiots Delight – Robert E. Sherwood
• 1937 You Can’t Take It With You – George S. Kaufman, Moss Hart
• 1938 Our Town – Thornton Wilder
• 1939 Abe Lincoln in Illinois – Robert E. Sherwood

• 1940 The Time of Your Life – William Saroyan
• 1941 There Shall Be No Night – Robert E. Sherwood
• 1942 (No Award)
• 1943 The Skin of Our Teeth – Thornton Wilder
• 1944 (No Award)
• 1945 Harvey – Mary Chase
• 1946 State of the Union – Russel Crouse, Howard Lindsay
• 1947 (No Award)
• 1948 A Streetcar Named Desire – Tennessee Williams
• 1949 Death of a Salesman – Arthur Miller

• 1950 South Pacific – Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II, Joshua Logan
• 1951 (No Award)
• 1952 The Shrike – Joseph Kramm
• 1953 Picnic – William Inge
• 1954 The Teahouse of the August Moon – John Patrick
• 1955 Cat on A Hot Tin Roof – Tennessee Williams
• 1956 The Diary of Anne Frank – Albert Hackett and Frances Goodrich
• 1957 Long Day’s Journey Into Night – Eugene O’Neill
• 1958 Look Homeward, Angel – Ketti Frings
• 1959 J. B. – Archibald MacLeish

• 1960 Fiorello! – George Abbott, Jerome Weidman, Jerry Bock, Sheldon Harnick
• 1961 All The Way Home – Tad Mosel
• 1962 How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying – Frank Loesser, Abe Burrows***
• 1963 (No Award)
• 1964 (No Award)
• 1965 The Subject Was Roses – Frank Gilroy
• 1966 (No Award)
• 1967 A Delicate Balance – Edward Albee
• 1968 (No Award)
• 1969 The Great White Hope – Howard Sackler

• 1970 No Place to be Somebody – Charles Gordone
• 1971 The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds – Paul Zindel
• 1972 (No Award)
• 1973 That Championship Season – Jason Miller
• 1974 (No Award)
• 1975 Seascape – Edward Albee
• 1976 A Chorus Line – James Kirkwood, Nicholas Dante, Ed Kleban, Marvin Hamlisch and Michael Bennett
• 1977 The Shadow Box – Michael Cristofer
• 1978 The Gin Game – D. L. Coburn
• 1979 Buried Child – Sam Shepard

• 1980 Talley’s Folly – Lanford Wilson
• 1981 Crimes of the Heart – Beth Henley
• 1982 A Soldier’s Play – Charles Fuller
• 1983 ‘Night, Mother – Marsha Norman
• 1984 Glengarry Glen Ross – David Mamet
• 1985 Sunday in the Park with George – Stephen Sondheim, James Lapine
• 1986 (No Award)
• 1987 Fences – August Wilson
• 1988 Driving Miss Daisy – Alfred Uhry
• 1989 The Heidi Chronicles – Wendy Wasserstein

• 1990 The Piano Lesson – August Wilson
• 1991 Lost in Yonkers – Neil Simon
• 1992 The Kentucky Cycle – Robert Schenkkan
• 1993 Angels in America: Millennium Approaches – Tony Kushner
• 1994 Three Tall Women – Edward Albee
• 1995 The Young Man from Atlanta – Horton Foote
• 1996 Rent – Jonathan Larson
• 1997 (No award)
• 1998 How I Learned to Drive – Paula Vogel
• 1999 Wit – Margaret Edson

• 2000 Dinner with Friends – Donald Margulies
• 2001 Proof – David Auburn
• 2002 Topdog/Underdog – Suzan-Lori Parks
• 2003 Anna in the Tropics – Nilo Cruz
• 2004 I Am My Own Wife – Douglas Wright
• 2005 Doubt – John Patrick Shanley
• 2006 (No Award)
• 2007 Rabbit Hole – David Lindsay-Abaire
• 2008 August: Osage County – Tracy Letts
• 2009 Ruined – Lynn Nottage

• 2010 Next to Normal – Brian Yorkey, Tom Kitt
• 2011 Clybourne Park – Bruce Norris
• 2012 Water by the Spoonful – Quira Alegría Hudes
• 2013 Disgraced – Ayad Akhtar
• 2014 The Flick – Annie Baker
• 2015 Between Riverside and Crazy – Stephen Adly Guirgis
• 2016 Hamilton – Lin-Manuel Miranda
• 2017 Sweat – Lynn Nottage
• 2018 Cost of Living – Martyn Majok
• 2019 Fairview – Jackie Sibblies Drury
• 2020 A Strange Loop – Michael R. Jackson

In 1943, Oklahoma! (Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II) was awarded a Special Pulitzer.

**Composer George Gershwin omitted from prize in 1932.

***In 1962, though Jack Weinstock and Willie Gilbert retained contractual rights to appear as authors, their work did not appear in the finished product; the Pulitzer committee omitted them from the prize.