This prize has been awarded annually since 1918 for an American play, preferably original and dealing with American life.
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Abe Burrows (born 1910, died 1985)
American playwright.
- 1962 Pulitzer Prize winner for Drama, for How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
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Albert Hackett (born 1900, died 1995)
American playwright and screenwriter.
- 1956 Pulitzer Prize winner for Drama, for The Diary of Anne Frank
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Alfred Uhry (born 1936)
American playwright.
- 1988 Pulitzer Prize winner for Drama, for Driving Miss Daisy
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Arthur Miller (born 1915)
American playwright.
- 1949 Pulitzer Prize winner for Drama, for Death of a Salesman
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August Wilson (born 1945)
American playwright.
- Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner for Drama, in 1987 for Fences and in 1990 for The Piano Lesson
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Charles Fuller (born 1939)
American playwright.
- 1982 Pulitzer Prize winner for Drama, for A Soldier''s Play
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Charles Gordone (born 1925, died 1995)
American playwright.
- 1970 Pulitzer Prize winner for Drama, for No Place to Be Somebody
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David Mamet (born 1947)
American playwright.
- 1984 Pulitzer Prize winner for Drama, for Glengarry Glen Ross
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Donald L. Coburn (born 1938)
American playwright.
- 1978 Pulitzer Prize winner for Drama, for The Gin Game
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Edward Albee (born 1928)
American playwright.
- Three-time Pulitzer Prize winner for Drama, in 1967 for A Delicate Balance, in 1975 for Seascape, and in 1994 for Three Tall Women
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Edward Kleban (born 1939, died 1987)
American lyricist.
- 1976 Pulitzer Prize winner for Drama, for A Chorus Line
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Elmer Rice (born 1892, died 1967)
American playwright.
- 1929 Pulitzer Prize winner for Drama, for Street Scene
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Eugene O'Neill (born 1888, died 1953)
American playwright.
- Four-time Pulitzer Prize winner for Drama, in 1920 for Beyond the Horizon, in 1922 for Anna Christie, in 1928 for Strange Interlude, and in 1957 for Long Day''s Journey Into Night
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Frank Loesser (born 1910, died 1969)
American composer.
- 1962 Pulitzer Prize winner for Drama, for How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
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Frank D. Gilroy (born 1925)
American playwright.
- 1965 Pulitzer Prize winner for Drama, for The Subject Was Roses
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George Kelly (born 1887, died 1974)
American playwright.
- 1926 Pulitzer Prize winner for Drama, for Craig''s Wife
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George Abbott (born 1887, died 1995)
American playwright, screenwriter, actor, director, and producer.
- 1960 Pulitzer Prize winner for Drama, for Fiorello!
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George S. Kaufman (born 1889, died 1961)
American playwright.
- Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner for Drama, in 1932 for Of Thee I Sing and in 1937 for You Can''t Take It with You
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Hatcher Hughes (born 1881, died 1945)
American playwright.
- 1924 Pulitzer Prize winner for Drama, for Hell-Bent For Heaven
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Howard Lindsay (born 1889, died 1968)
American playwright, producer, and actor.
- 1946 Pulitzer Prize winner for Drama, for State of the Union
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Howard Sackler (born 1929, died 1982)
American playwright.
- 1969 Pulitzer Prize winner for Drama, for The Great White Hope
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James Kirkwood (born 1930, died 1989)
American playwright, actor and novelist.
- 1976 Pulitzer Prize winner for Drama, for A Chorus Line
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James Lapine (born 1949)
American playwright.
- 1985 Pulitzer Prize winner for Drama, for Sunday in the Park with George
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Jason Miller (born 1939)
American playwright and actor.
- 1973 Pulitzer Prize winner for Drama, for That Championship Season
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Jesse Lynch Williams (born 1871, died 1929)
American playwright.
- 1918 Pulitzer Prize winner for Drama, for Why Marry
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John Patrick (born 1905, died 1995)
American playwright and screenwriter.
- 1954 Pulitzer Prize winner for Drama, for The Teahouse of the August Moon
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Joseph Kramm (born 1907)
American playwright, actor, and director.
- 1952 Pulitzer Prize winner for Drama, for The Shrike
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Ketti Frings (born 1915, died 1981)
American playwright and screenwriter.
- 1958 Pulitzer Prize winner for Drama, for Look Homeward, Angel
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Lanford Wilson (born 1937)
American playwright.
- 1980 Pulitzer Prize winner for Drama, for Talley''s Folly
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Marc Connelly (born 1890, died 1980)
American playwright.
- 1930 Pulitzer Prize winner for Drama, for The Green Pastures
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Marvin Hamlisch (born 1944)
American composer and musician.
- 1976 Pulitzer Prize winner for Drama, for A Chorus Line
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Maxwell Anderson (born 1888, died 1959)
American playwright.
- 1933 Pulitzer Prize winner for Drama, for Both Your Houses
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Michael Bennett (born 1943, died 1987)
American choreographer and director.
- 1976 Pulitzer Prize winner for Drama, for A Chorus Line
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Michael Cristofer (born 1945)
American playwright.
- 1977 Pulitzer Prize winner for Drama, for The Shadow Box
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Morrie Ryskind (born 1895, died 1985)
American playwright, screenwriter, and journalist.
- 1932 Pulitzer Prize winner for Drama, for Of Thee I Sing
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Moss Hart (born 1904, died 1961)
American playwright.
- 1937 Pulitzer Prize winner for Drama, for You Can''t Take It With You
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Neil Simon (born 1927)
American playwright.
- 1991 Pulitzer Prize winner for Drama, for Lost in Yonkers
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Nicholas Dante (born 1941)
American playwright.
- 1976 Pulitzer Prize winner for Drama, for A Chorus Line
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Oscar Hammerstein
- 1950 Pulitzer Prize winner for Drama, for South Pacific
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Owen Davis (born 1874, died 1956)
American playwright.
- 1923 Pulitzer Prize winner for Drama, for Icebound
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Paul Green (born 1894, died 1981)
American playwright and screenwriter.
- 1927 Pulitzer Prize winner for Drama, for In Abraham''s Bosom
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Paul Zindel (born 1936)
American playwright.
- 1971 Pulitzer Prize winner for Drama, for The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds
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Richard Rodgers (born 1902, died 1979)
American composer.
- 1950 Pulitzer Prize winner for Drama, for South Pacific
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Robert E. Sherwood (born 1896, died 1955)
American playwright and screenwriter.
- Three-time Pulitzer Prize winner for Drama, in 1936 for Idiot''s Delight, in 1939 for Abe Lincoln in Illinois, and in 1941 for There Shall Be No Night
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Robert Schenkkan (born 1953)
American playwright.
- 1992 Pulitzer Prize winner for Drama, for The Kentucky Cycle
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Russel Crouse (born 1893, died 1966)
American playwright.
- 1946 Pulitzer Prize winner for Drama, for State of the Union
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Sam Shepard (born 1943)
American actor, playwright and screenwriter.
- 1979 Pulitzer Prize winner for Drama, for Buried Child
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Sidney Howard (born 1891, died 1939)
American playwright, screenwriter, and journalist.
- 1925 Pulitzer Prize winner for Drama, for They Knew What They Wanted
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Sidney Kingsley (born 1906, died 1995)
American playwright.
- 1934 Pulitzer Prize winner for Drama, for Men in White
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Stephen Sondheim (born 1930)
American composer of musical theatre.
- 1985 Pulitzer Prize winner for Drama, for Sunday in the Park with George
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Tad Mosel (born 1922)
American playwright and screenwriter.
- 1961 Pulitzer Prize winner for Drama, for All the Way Home
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Thomas ''Tennessee'' Williams (born 1911, died 1983)
American playwright.
- Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner for Drama, in 1948 for A Streetcar Named Desire and in 1955 for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
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Tony Kushner (born 1956)
American playwright.
- 1993 Pulitzer Prize winner for Drama, for Angels in America: Millennium Approaches
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William M. Inge (born 1913, died 1973)
American playwright.
- 1953 Pulitzer Prize winner for Drama, for Picnic
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William Saroyan (born 1908, died 1981)
American novelist and playwright.
- 1940 Pulitzer Prize winner for Drama, for The Time of Your Life
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Joshua Lockwood Logan (born 1908, died 1988)
American director known for such Broadway hits as South Pacific and Annie Get Your Gun.
- 1950 Pulitzer Prize winner for Drama, for South Pacific
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Thornton Wilder (born 1897, died 1975)
American novelist and playwright.
- Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner for Drama, in 1938 for Our Town and in 1943 for The Skin of Our Teeth
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Archibald MacLeish (born 1892, died 1982)
American poet and playwright.
- 1959 Pulitzer Prize winner for Drama, for J.B.
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Jerrold Lewis ''Jerry'' Bock (born 1928)
American composer.
- 1960 Pulitzer Prize winner for Drama, for Fiorello
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Ira Gershwin (born 1896, died 1983)
American songwriter.
- 1932 Pulitzer Prize winner for Drama, for Of Thee I Sing
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Horton Foote
American playwright.
- 1995 Pulitzer Prize winner for Drama, for The Young Man from Atlanta
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Jonathan Larson
American playwright.
- 1996 Pulitzer Prize winner for Drama, for Rent
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Jerome Weidman (died 1998)
- 1960 Pulitzer Prize winner for Drama, for Fiorello
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Sheldon Mayer Harnick (born 1924)
American lyricist.
- 1960 Pulitzer Prize winner for Drama, for Fiorello
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Donald Margulies (born 1952)
American playwright
- 2000 Pulitzer Prize winner for Drama
