LibGuides: Check Out a Champion: Pulitzer Prize Winners in Literature: Drama

SSPL Holdings (1984 - present)

2022 Winner:
Fat Ham by James Ijames
Call Number: 812.6 Ija

ISBN: 9781636701684

Publication Date: 2023-08-01
2020 Winner:
A Strange Loop
by Michael R. Jackson
Call Number: 782.1402 Jac

ISBN: 9781559369930

Publication Date: 2021-01-19
2019 Winner:
Fairview
by Jackie Sibblies Drury
Call Number: 812.6 Dru

ISBN: 9781559369527

Publication Date: 2019-08-27
2018 Winner:
Cost of Living
by Martyna Majok
Call Number: 812.6 Maj

ISBN: 9781559365970

Publication Date: 2018-10-23
2017 Winner:
Sweat
by Lynn Nottage
Call Number: 812.54 Not

ISBN: 9781559365710

Publication Date: 2017-06-20
2016 Winner:
Hamilton: The Revolution
by Lin-Manuel Miranda
Call Number: 792.642 Mir

ISBN: 9781455539741

Publication Date: 2016-04-12
2015 Winner:
Between Riverside and Crazy
by Stephen Adly Guirgis
Call Number: 812.6 Gui

ISBN: 9781559365154

Publication Date: 2015-11-10
2014 Winner:
The Flick
by Annie Baker
Call Number: 812.6 Bak

ISBN: 9781559364584

Publication Date: 2014-09-30
2011 Winner:
Clybourne Park
by Bruce Norris
Call Number: 812.6 Nor

ISBN: 9780865478688

Publication Date: 2011-08-16
2009 Winner:
Ruined
by Lynn Nottage
Call Number: 812.54 Not

ISBN: 9781559363556

Publication Date: 2009-09-01
2008 Winner:
August: Osage County
by Tracy Letts
Call Number: 812.6 Let

ISBN: 9781559364669

Publication Date: 2013-11-05
2005 Winner:
Doubt: A Parable
by John Patrick Shanley
Call Number: 812.54 Sha

ISBN: 9781559363471

Publication Date: 2008-12-01
2003 Winner:
Anna in the Tropics
by Nilo Cruz
Call Number: 812.6 Cru

ISBN: 1559362324

Publication Date: 2003-09-01
2002 Winner:
Topdog/Underdog
by Suzan-Lori Parks
Call Number: 812 Par

ISBN: 1559362014

Publication Date: 2001-06-01
2001 Winner:
Proof
by David Auburn
Call Number: 812.6 Aub

ISBN: 0571199976

Publication Date: 2001-03-05
1998 Winner:
How I Learned to Drive
by Paula Vogel
Call Number: 812.54 Vog

ISBN: 9781559365642

Publication Date: 2018-04-24
1994 Winner:
Three Tall Women
by Edward Albee
Call Number: 812.54 Alb

ISBN: 0525939601

Publication Date: 1995-01-01
1993 Winner:
Angels in America: Millennium Approaches
by Tony Kushner
Call Number: 812.54 Kus*

ISBN: 9781559363846

Publication Date: 2013-12-24

*Found in: Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes
1989 Winner:
The Heidi Chronicles
by Wendy Wasserstein
Call Number: 812.54 Was

ISBN: 0822205106

Publication Date: 1989-10-01
1987 Winner:
*Fences
by August Wilson
Call Number: 812.54 Wil [currently marked as missing]

ISBN: 0452264014

Publication Date: 1986-06-01

SSPL Holdings (1918 - 1983)

1983 Winner:
Night, Mother
by Marsha Norman
Call Number: 812.54 Nor

ISBN: 0374521387

Publication Date: 1983-08-01
1980 Winner:
Talley's Folly
by Lanford Wilson
Call Number: 812 Wil*

ISBN: 1575251337

Publication Date: 1998-08-01

*Found in: The Talley Trilogy
1979 Winner:
Buried Child
by Sam Shepard
Call Number: 812.54 She*

ISBN: 0553346113

Publication Date: 1984-05-01

*Found in: Sam Shepard: Seven Plays
1967 Winner:
A Delicate Balance
by Edward Albee
Call Number: 812 A
1958 Winner:
Look Homeward, Angel
by Ketti Frings
Call Number: 812 F
1957 Winner:
Long Day's Journey into Night
by Eugene O'Neill
Call Number: 812 ONe*

ISBN: 0940450496

Publication Date: 1988-10-01

*Found in: Eugene O'Neill: Complete Plays, Vol. 3
1956 Winner:
Diary of Anne Frank
by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett
Call Number: 812 Goo

ISBN: 0822203073

Publication Date: 1958-10-01
1955 Winner:
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
by Tennessee Williams
Call Number: 812.54 Wil

ISBN: 9780811216012

Publication Date: 2004-09-17
1949 Winner:
Death of a Salesman
by Arthur Miller
Call Number: 812 Mil

ISBN: 0140285652

Publication Date: 1999-02-01
1948 Winner:
A Streetcar Named Desire
by Tennessee Williams
Call Number: 812.54 Wil

ISBN: 9780811216029

Publication Date: 2004-09-17
1943 Winner:
The Skin of Our Teeth
by Thornton Wilder
Call Number: S FSC 812 WIL*
*Saratoga Room, non-circulating*

*Found in: Three plays: Our Town, The Skin of Our Teeth, The Matchmaker
1938 Winner:
Our Town
by Thornton Wilder
Call Number: 812.52 Wil

ISBN: 9780063003996

Publication Date: 2020-07-28
1937 Winner:
You Can't Take It With You
by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart
Call Number: 812 Kau*

ISBN: 1931082677

Publication Date: 2004-10-07

*Found in: Kaufman & Co.: Broadway Comedies
1932 Winner:
Of Thee I Sing
by George S. Kaufman, Morrie Ryskind, and Ira Gershwin
Call Number: 812 Kau*

ISBN: 1931082677

Publication Date: 2004-10-07

*Found in: Kaufman & Co.: Broadway Comedies
1931 Winner:
Alison's House
by Susan Glaspell
Call Number: S 812 Gla
*Saratoga Room, non-circulating*
1928 Winner:
Strange Interlude
by Eugene O'Neill
Call Number: 812 ONe*

ISBN: 0940450496

Publication Date: 1988-10-01

*Found in: Eugene O'Neill: Complete Plays, Vol. 2
1922 Winner:
Anna Christie
by Eugene O'Neill
Call Number: 812 ONe*

ISBN: 0940450496

Publication Date: 1988-10-01

*Found in: Eugene O'Neill: Complete Plays, Vol. 1
1920 Winner:
Beyond the Horizon
by Eugene O'Neill
Call Number: 812 ONe*

ISBN: 0940450496

Publication Date: 1988-10-01

*Found in: Eugene O'Neill: Complete Plays, Vol. 1

Winners from Other Years (1970 - present)

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to see if a copy can be located
through Interlibrary Loan!

Purpose
by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
Year Won: 2025
Primary Trust
by Eboni Booth
Year Won: 2024
English
by Sanaz Toossi
Year Won: 2023
The Hot Wing King
by Katori Hall
Year Won: 2021
Disgraced
by Ayad Akhtar
Year Won: 2013
Water by the Spoonful
by Quiara Alegría Hudes
Year Won: 2012
Next to Normal
by Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey
Year Won: 2010
Rabbit Hole
by David Lindsay-Abaire
Year Won: 2007
I Am My Own Wife
by Doug Wright
Year Won: 2004
Dinner with Friends
by Donald Margulies
Year Won: 2000
Wit
by Margaret Edson
Year Won: 1999
Rent
by Jonathan Larson
Year Won: 1996
The Young Man from Atlanta
by Horton Foote
Year Won: 1995
The Kentucky Cycle
by Robert Schenkkan
Year Won: 1992
Lost in Yonkers
by Neil Simon
Year Won: 1991
The Piano Lesson
by August Wilson
Year Won: 1990
Driving Miss Daisy
by Alfred Uhry
Year Won: 1988
Sunday in the Park with George
by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine
Year Won: 1985
Glengarry Glen Ross
by David Mamet
Year Won: 1984
A Soldier's Play
by Charles Fuller
Year Won: 1982
Crimes of the Heart
by Beth Henley
Year Won: 1981
The Gin Game
by Donald L. Coburn
Year Won: 1978
The Shadow Box
by Michael Cristofer
Year Won: 1977
A Chorus Line
by Michael Bennett, et al.
Year Won: 1976
Seascape
by Edward Albee
Year Won: 1975
That Championship Season
by Jason Miller
Year Won: 1973
The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-In-The-Moon Marigolds
by Paul Zindel
Year Won: 1971
No Place to Be Somebody
by Charles Gordone
Year Won: 1970

Winners from Other Years (1918 - 1969)

The Great White Hope
by Howard Sackler
Year Won: 1969
The Subject Was Roses
by Frank D. Gilroy
Year Won: 1965
How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying
by Frank Loesser and Abe Burrows
Year Won: 1962
All the Way Home
by Tad Mosel
Year Won: 1961
Fiorello!
by Jerome Weidman, et al.
Year Won: 1960
J. B.
by Archibald Macleish
Year Won: 1959
The Teahouse of the August Moon
by John Patrick
Year Won: 1954
Picnic
by William Inge
Year Won: 1953
The Shrike
by Joseph Kramm
Year Won: 1952
South Pacific
by Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II, and Joshua Logan
Year Won: 1950
State of the Union
by Russel Crouse and Howard Lindsay
Year Won: 1946
Harvey
by Mary Chase
Year Won: 1945
There Shall Be No Night
by Robert E. Sherwood
Year Won: 1941
The Time of Your Life
by William Saroyan
Year Won: 1940
Abe Lincoln in Illinois
by Robert E. Sherwood
Year Won: 1939
Idiots Delight
by Robert E. Sherwood
Year Won: 1936
The Old Maid
by Zoe Akins
Year Won: 1935
Men in White
by Sidney Kingsley
Year Won: 1934
Both Your Houses
by Maxwell Anderson
Year Won: 1933
The Green Pastures
by Marc Connelly
Year Won: 1930
Street Scene
by Elmer L. Rice
Year Won: 1929
In Abraham's Bosom
by Paul Green
Year Won: 1927
Craig's Wife
by George Kelly
Year Won: 1926
They Knew What They Wanted
by Sidney Howard
Year Won: 1925
Hell-Bent fer Heaven
by Hatcher Hughes
Year Won: 1924
Icebound
by Owen Davis
Year Won: 1923
Miss Lulu Bett
by Zona Gale
Year Won: 1921
Why Marry?
by Jesse Lynch Williams
Year Won: 1918

Check Out a Champion: Pulitzer Prize Winners in Literature: Drama

The Award

The Pulitzer Prize in Drama is awarded for “a distinguished play by an American
author, preferably original in its source and dealing with American life.”

“Drama.” The Pulitzer Prizes. Columbia University, 2024. Web. www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-category/218.

SSPL Holdings (1984 - present)

SSPL Holdings (1918 - 1983)

Winners from Other Years (1970 - present)

Ask at the Reference Desk (ext. 304)
to see if a copy can be located
through Interlibrary Loan!

Winners from Other Years (1918 - 1969)

Check Out a Champion: Pulitzer Prize Winners in Literature: Drama

The Award

The Pulitzer Prize in Drama is awarded for “a distinguished play by an American author, preferably original in its source and dealing with American life.”

“Drama.” The Pulitzer Prizes. Columbia University, 2024. Web. www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-category/218.

SSPL Holdings (1984 - present)

SSPL Holdings (1918 - 1983)

Winners from Other Years (1970 - present)

Ask at the Reference Desk (ext. 304) to see if a copy can be located through Interlibrary Loan!

Winners from Other Years (1918 - 1969)

The Pulitzer Prize in Drama is awarded for “a distinguished play by an American
author, preferably original in its source and dealing with American life.”

Ask at the Reference Desk (ext. 304)
to see if a copy can be located
through Interlibrary Loan!