Pulitzer Prize

Pulitzer Prize, founded under the will of Joseph Pulitzer (1847–1911), awarded annually (unless the judges decide to withhold it) for the best play, preferably one dealing with American life, produced in New York during the preceding 12 months. It has been awarded as follows:

1916–17: No award1917–18: Why Marry? ( Jesse Lynch Williams)1918–19: No award1919–20: Beyond the Horizon ( Eugene O'Neill)1920–1: Miss Lulu Bett ( Zona Gale)1921–2: Anna Christie ( Eugene O'Neill)1922–3: Icebound ( Owen Davis)1923–4: Hell-Bent fer Heaven ( Hatcher Hughes)1924–5: They Knew What They Wanted ( Sidney Howard)1925–6: Craig's Wife ( George Kelly)1926–7: In Abraham's Bosom ( Paul Green)1927–8: Strange Interlude ( Eugene O'Neill)1928–9: Street Scene ( Elmer Rice)1929–30: The Green Pastures ( Marc Connelly)1930–1: Alison's House ( Susan Glaspell)1931–2: Of Thee I Sing ( George S. Kaufman, Morrie Ryskind, Ira Gershwin and George Gershwin)1932–3: Both Your Houses ( Maxwell Anderson)1933–4: Men in White ( Sidney Kingsley)1934–5: The Old Maid ( Zoë Akins)1935–6: Idiot's Delight ( Robert E. Sherwood)1936–7: You Can't Take It With You ( Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman)1937–8: Our Town ( Thornton Wilder)1938–9: Abe Lincoln in Illinois ( Robert E. Sherwood)1939–40: The Time of Your Life ( William Saroyan)1940–1: There Shall Be No Night ( Robert E. Sherwood)1941–2: No award1942–3: The Skin of Our Teeth ( Thornton Wilder)1943–4: No award1944–5: Harvey ( Mary Chase)1945–6: State of the Union ( Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse)1946–7: No award1947–8: A Streetcar Named Desire ( Tennessee Williams)1948–9: Death of a Salesman ( Arthur Miller)1949–50: South Pacific ( Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II, and Joshua Logan)1950–1: No award1951–2: The Shrike ( Joseph Kramm)1952–3: Picnic ( William Inge)1953–4: The Teahouse of the August Moon ( John Patrick)1954–5: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof ( Tennessee Williams)1955–6: The Diary of Anne Frank ( Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett)1956–7: Long Day's Journey Into Night ( Eugene O'Neill)1957–8: Look Homeward, Angel ( Ketti Frings)1958–9: J.B. ( Archibald MacLeish)1959–60: Fiorello! ( Jerome Weidman, George Abbott, Sheldon Harnick, and Jerry Bock)1960–1: All the Way Home ( Tad Mosel)1961–2: How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying ( Abe Burrows, Willie Gilbert, Jack Weinstock, and Frank Loesser)1962–3: No award1963–4: No award1964–5: The Subject Was Roses ( Frank D. Gilroy)1965–6: No award1966–7: A Delicate Balance ( Edward Albee)1967–8: No award1968–9: The Great White Hope ( Howard Sackler)1969–70: No Place To Be Somebody (Charles Gordone)1970–1: The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds ( Paul Zindel)1971–2: No award1972–3: That Championship Season ( Jason Miller)1973–4: No award1974–5: Seascape ( Edward Albee)1975–6: A Chorus Line ( Michael Bennett, James Kirkwood, Nicholas Dante, Marvin Hamlisch, and Edward Kleban)1976–7: The Shadow Box ( Michael Cristofer)1977–8: The Gin Game ( D. L. Coburn)1978–9: Buried Child ( Sam Shepard)1979–80: Talley's Folly ( Lanford Wilson)1980–1: Crimes of the Heart ( Beth Henley)1981–2: A Soldier's Play ( Charles Fuller)1982–3: 'night, Mother ( Marsha Norman)1983–4: Glengarry Glen Ross ( David Mamet)1984–5: Sunday in the Park With George ( James Lapine and Stephen Sondheim)1985–6: No award1986–7: Fences ( August Wilson)1987–8: Driving Miss Daisy ( Alfred Uhry)1988–9: The Heidi Chronicles ( Wendy Wasserstein)1989–90: The Piano Lesson ( August Wilson)