The 2010 Pulitzer Prizewinners and Nominated Finalists in all categories will be announced on April 12, 2010 at 3 p.m. Eastern daylight time. Finalists are not announced in advance. The 2010 Prizes are awarded for work published, produced or premiered in 2009.
More than 2,400 entries are submitted each year in the Pulitzer Prize competitions, and only 21 awards are normally made. The awards are the culmination of a year-long process that begins early in the year with the appointment of 102 distinguished judges who serve on 20 separate juries and are asked to make three nominations in each of the 21 categories.
Past Pulitzer Prize for Drama Winners 2009 Ruined by
Lynn Nottage 2008 "August: Osage County" by
Tracy Letts 2007 Rabbit Hole by
David Lindsay-Abaire 2006 by No Award
2005 Doubt, a parable by
John Patrick Shanley 2004 I Am My Own Wife by
Doug Wright 2003 Anna in the Tropics by
Nilo Cruz 2002 Topdog/Underdog by
Suzan-Lori Parks 2001 Proof by
David Auburn 2000 Dinner With Friends by
Donald Margulies 1999 Wit by
Margaret Edson 1998 How I Learned to Drive by
Paula Vogel 1997 No award.
1996 Rent by the late
Jonathan Larson 1995 The Young Man From Atlanta by
Horton Foote 1994 Three Tall Women by
Edward Albee 1993 Angels in America: Millennium Approaches by
Tony Kushner 1992 The Kentucky Cycle by
Robert Schenkkan 1991 Lost in Yonkers by
Neil Simon 1990 The Piano Lesson by
August Wilson 1989 The Heidi Chronicles by
Wendy Wasserstein 1988 Driving Miss Daisy by
Alfred Uhry 1987 Fences by
August Wilson 1986 (No Award)
1985 Sunday in the Park With George; music and lyrics by
Stephen Sondheim , book by
James Lapine .
1984 Glengarry G
Len Ross by
David Mamet 1983 Night, Mother by
Marsha Norman 1982 A Soldier's Play by
Charles Fuller 1981 Crimes of the Heart by
Beth Henley 1980 Talley's Folly by
Lanford Wilson 1979 Buried Child by
Sam Shepard 1978 The Gin Game by Donald L. Coburn
1977 The Shadow Box by
Michael Cristofer 1976 A Chorus Line conceived, choreographed and directed by
Michael Bennett , with book by
James Kirkwood and
Nicholas Dante , music by
Marvin Hamlisch , and lyrics by
Edward Kleban 1975 Seascape by
Edward Albee 1974 (No Award)
1973 That Championship Season by
Jason Miller 1972 (No Award)
1971 The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-In-The-Moon Marigolds by
Paul Zindel 1970 No Place To Be Somebody by
Charles Gordon e
1969 The Great White Hope by
Howard Sackler 1968 (No Award)
1967 A Delicate Balance by
Edward Albee 1966 (No Award)
1965 The Subject Was Roses by
Frank D. Gilroy 1964 (No Award)
1962 How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying by
Frank Loesser and
Abe Burrows 1961 All The Way Home by
Tad Mosel 1960 Fiorello! Book by
Jerome Weidman and
George Abbott , music by
Jerry Bock and lyrics by
Sheldon Harnick .
1959 J. B. by
Archibald MacLeish 1958 Look Homeward, Angel by
Ketti Frings 1957 Long Day's Journey Into Night by
Eugene O'Neill 1956 Diary of
Anne Frank by
Albert Hackett and
Frances Goodrich 1955 Cat on A Hot Tin Roof by
Tennessee Williams 1954 The Teahouse of the August Moon by John Patrick
1953 Picnic by
William Inge 1952 The Shrike by
Joseph Kramm 1951 (No Award)
1950 South Pacific by
Richard Rodgers ,
Oscar Hammerstein II and
Joshua Logan 1949 Death of a Salesman by
Arthur Miller 1948 A Streetcar Named Desire by
Tennessee Williams 1947 (No Award)
1946 State of the Union by
Russel Crouse and
Howard Lindsay 1945 Harvey by
Mary Chase 1944 (No Award)
1943 The Skin of Our Teeth by
Thornton Wilder 1942 (No Award)
1941 There Shall Be No Night by
Robert E. Sherwood 1940 The Time of Your Life by
William Saroyan 1939 Abe Lincoln in Illinois by
Robert E. Sherwood 1938 Our Town by
Thornton Wilder 1937 You Can't Take It With You by
Moss Hart and
George S. Kaufman 1936 Idiots Delight by
Robert E. Sherwood 1935 The Old Maid by
Zoe Akins 1934 Men in White by
Sidney Kingsley 1933 Both Your Houses by
Maxwell Anderson 1932 Of Thee I Sing by
George S. Kaufman ,
Morrie Ryskind and
Ira Gershwin 1931 Alison's House by
Susan Glaspell 1930 The Green Pastures by
Marc Connelly 1929 Street Scene by Elmer L. Rice
1928 Strange Interlude by
Eugene O'Neill 1927 In Abraham's Bosom by
Paul Green 1926 Craig's Wife by
George Kelly 1925 They Knew What They Wanted by
Sidney Howard 1924 Hell-Bent Fer Heaven by
Hatcher Hughes 1923 Icebound by
Owen Davis 1922 Anna Christie by
Eugene O'Neill 1921
Miss Lu lu Bett by
Zona Gale 1920 Beyond the Horizon by
Eugene O'Neill 1919 (No Award)
1918 Why Marry? by
Jesse Lynch Williams 1917 (No Award)
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