Pulitzer Prize for Drama facts for kids

The Pulitzer Prize for Drama was first given out in 1918. It is given to the best drama in the United States in the year.

Awards and nominations

Items marked with an asterisk (*) also won the Tony Award for Best Play or Best Musical

1960: Fiorello! * – Jerome Weidman, George Abbott, Jerry Bock, and Sheldon Harnick
1961: All the Way Home – Tad Mosel
1962: How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying * – Frank Loesser and Abe Burrows
1963: no award
1964: no award
1965: The Subject Was Roses * – Frank D. 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 * – Michael Bennett, Nicholas Dante and James Kirkwood, Jr., Marvin Hamlisch and Edward Kleban
1977: The Shadow Box * – Michael Cristofer
1978: The Gin Game – Donald 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
- True West – Sam Shepard
1984: Glengarry Glen Ross – David Mamet
- Fool for Love – Sam Shepard
- Painting Churches – Tina Howe
1985: Sunday in the Park with George – James Lapine and Stephen Sondheim
- The Dining Room – A. R. Gurney
- The Gospel at Colonus – Lee Breuer, Bob Telson

1986: no award
1987: Fences * – August Wilson
- Broadway Bound – Neil Simon
- A Walk in the Woods – Lee Blessing
1988: Driving Miss Daisy – Alfred Uhry
- Boy's Life – Howard Korder
- Talk Radio – Eric Bogosian
1989: The Heidi Chronicles * – Wendy Wasserstein
- Joe Turner's Come and Gone – August Wilson
- M. Butterfly – David Henry Hwang

1990: The Piano Lesson – August Wilson
- And What of the Night? – María Irene Fornés
- Love Letters – A. R. Gurney
1991: Lost in Yonkers * – Neil Simon
- Prelude to a Kiss – Craig Lucas
- Six Degrees of Separation – John Guare
1992: The Kentucky Cycle – Robert Schenkkan
- Conversations with My Father – Herb Gardner
- Miss Evers' Boys – David Feldshuh
- Two Trains Running – August Wilson
- Sight Unseen – Donald Margulies
1993: Angels in America: Millennium Approaches * – Tony Kushner
- The Destiny of Me – Larry Kramer
- Fires in the Mirror – Anna Deavere Smith
1994: Three Tall Women – Edward Albee
- Keely and Du – Jane Martin
- A Perfect Ganesh – Terrence McNally

1995: The Young Man From Atlanta – Horton Foote
- The Cryptogram – David Mamet
- Seven Guitars – August Wilson
1996: Rent * – Jonathan Larson
- A Fair Country – Jon Robin Baitz
- Old Wicked Songs – Jon Marans
1997: no award
- Collected Stories – Donald Margulies
- The Last Night of Ballyhoo – Alfred Uhry
- Pride's Crossing – Tina Howe
1998: How I Learned to Drive – Paula Vogel
- Freedomland – Amy Freed
- Three Days of Rain – Richard Greenberg
1999: Wit – Margaret Edson
- Running Man – Cornelius Eady and Diedre Murray
- Side Man * – Warren Leight

2000: Dinner with Friends – Donald Margulies
- In the Blood – Suzan-Lori Parks
- King Hedley II – August Wilson
2001: Proof * – David Auburn
- The Play About the Baby – Edward Albee
- The Waverly Gallery – Kenneth Lonergan
2002: Topdog/Underdog – Suzan-Lori Parks
- The Glory of Living – Rebecca Gilman
- Yellowman – Dael Orlandersmith
2003: Anna in the Tropics – Nilo Cruz
- The Goat or Who Is Sylvia? * – Edward Albee
- Take Me Out * – Richard Greenberg
2004: I Am My Own Wife * – Doug Wright
- Man from Nebraska – Tracy Letts
- Omnium Gatherum – Theresa Rebeck and Alexandra Gersten-Vassilaros

2005 Doubt: A Parable * – John Patrick Shanley
- The Clean House – Sarah Ruhl
- Thom Pain (based on nothing) – Will Eno
2006: no award
- Miss Witherspoon – Christopher Durang
- The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow – Rolin Jones
- Red Light Winter – Adam Rapp
2007: Rabbit Hole – David Lindsay-Abaire
- Bulrusher – Eisa Davis
- Orpheus X – Rinde Eckert
- Elliot, a Soldier's Fugue – Quiara Alegría Hudes
2008 August: Osage County * – Tracy Letts
- Dying City – Christopher Shinn
- Yellow Face – David Henry Hwang
2009 Ruined – Lynn Nottage
- Becky Shaw – Gina Gionfriddo
- In the Heights * – Lin-Manuel Miranda and Quiara Alegría Hudes

2010: Next to Normal – Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey
- Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo – Rajiv Joseph
- The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity – Kristoffer Diaz
- In the Next Room – Sarah Ruhl
2011: Clybourne Park * – Bruce Norris
- Detroit – Lisa D'Amour
- A Free Man of Color – John Guare
2012: Water by the Spoonful – Quiara Alegría Hudes
- Other Desert Cities – Jon Robin Baitz
- Sons of the Prophet – Stephen Karam
2013: Disgraced - Ayad Akhtar
- Rapture, Blister, Burn - Gina Gionfriddo
- 4000 Miles - Amy Herzog

Only a few playwrights have been awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama more than once.

Eugene O'Neill won the prize four times—more than any other playwright. He won in 1920, 1922, 1928, and 1957.
George S. Kaufman won the award twice, once in 1932 and once in 1937. Both times he won the award for a work with another writer.
Robert E. Sherwood won the award in 1936, 1939, and 1941.
Thornton Wilder won in 1938 and 1943.
Tennessee Williams won the award in 1948 and 1955.
August Wilson won the award in 1987 and 1990.
Edward Albee won the award in 1967, 1975 and 1994.