Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Winners



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Jesse Lynch Williams

Jesse Lynch Williams (1871-1929) was an American Pulitzer Prize-winning author and dramatist. Williams began his literary career in college, writing Princeton Stories. Upon graduation he continued to write novels and plays, including Why Marry? for...

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x Year:: 1918

x Award:: Pulitzer Prize for Drama

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x Winning work:: Why Marry?

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Zona Gale

Zona Gale (26 August 1874 – 27 December 1938) was an American author and playwright. Gale was born in Portage, Wisconsin, which she often used as a setting in her writing. She attended Wayland Academy in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, and later entered the...

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x Year:: 1921

x Award:: Pulitzer Prize for Drama

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x Winning work:: Miss Lulu Bett

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Owen Davis

Owen Gould Davis, Sr. (29 January 1874 – 14 October 1956) was an American dramatist. He received the 1923 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his 1923 play Icebound, and penned hundreds of plays and scripts for radio and film. Davis was born in Portland,...

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x Year:: 1923

x Award:: Pulitzer Prize for Drama

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x Winning work:: Icebound

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Hatcher Hughes

Hatcher Hughes (12 February 1881, Polkville, North Carolina - 19 October 1945, New York City) was an American playwright who lived in Grover, NC, as featured in the book Images of America. He was on the teaching staff of Columbia University from...

Awards Won

x Year:: 1924

x Award:: Pulitzer Prize for Drama

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x Winning work:: Hell-Bent for Heaven

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Sidney Howard

Sidney Coe Howard (26 June 1891 – 23 August 1939) was an American playwright and screenwriter. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1925 and a posthumous Academy Award in 1940 for the screenplay for Gone with the Wind. Howard was born in...

Awards Won

x Year:: 1925

x Award:: Pulitzer Prize for Drama

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x Winning work:: They Knew What They Wanted

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x Year:: 1939

x Award:: Oscar for Writing Adapted Screenplay

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x Winning work:: Gone with the Wind

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George Kelly

George Edward Kelly (16 January 1887 – 18 June 1974) was an American playwright, screenwriter, director, and actor. He began his career in vaudeville as an actor and sketch writer. He became best known for his satiric comedies, including The Torch...

Awards Won

x Year:: 1926

x Award:: Pulitzer Prize for Drama

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x Winning work:: Craig's Wife

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Paul Green

Paul Eliot Green (17 March 1894 - 4 May 1981) was an American playwright best known for his depictions of life in North Carolina during the first decades of the twentieth century. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his 1927 play, In...

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x Year:: 1927

x Award:: Pulitzer Prize for Drama

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x Winning work:: In Abraham's Bosom

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Thornton Wilder

Thornton Niven Wilder (April 17, 1897 – December 7, 1975) was an American playwright and novelist. His best known work is his play Our Town. Wilder was born in Madison, Wisconsin, and was the son of Amos Parker Wilder, a U.S. diplomat, and Isabella...

Awards Won

x Year:: 1928

x Award:: Pulitzer Prize for the Novel

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x Winning work:: The Bridge of San Luis Rey

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x Year:: 1968

x Award:: National Book Award for Fiction

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x Winning work:: The Eighth Day

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x Year:: 1943

x Award:: Pulitzer Prize for Drama

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x Winning work:: The Skin of Our Teeth

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Elmer Rice

Elmer Rice (28 September 1892 – 8 May 1967) was an American playwright. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his 1929 play, Street Scene. Rice was born Elmer Leopold Reizenstein in New York City, New York. After graduating cum laude from New...

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x Year:: 1929

x Award:: Pulitzer Prize for Drama

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x Winning work:: Street Scene

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Marc Connelly

Marcus Cook Connelly (13 December 1890 - 21 December 1980) was an American playwright, director, producer, performer, and lyricist. He was a key member of the Algonquin Round Table, and received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1930. Connelly was...

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x Year:: 1930

x Award:: Pulitzer Prize for Drama

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x Winning work:: Green Pastures

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Susan Glaspell

Susan Keating Glaspell (1 July 1876 – 27 July 1948) was an American Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and bestselling novelist. She was a founding member of the Provincetown Players, one of the most important collaboratives in the development of...

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x Year:: 1931

x Award:: Pulitzer Prize for Drama

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x Winning work:: Alison's House

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Ira Gershwin

Ira Gershwin (December 6, 1896 – August 17, 1983) was an American lyricist who collaborated with his younger brother, composer George Gershwin, to create some of the most memorable songs of the 20th century. With George he wrote more than a dozen...

Awards Won

x Year:: 1932

x Award:: Pulitzer Prize for Drama

x Award Winner:: Morrie Ryskind,; George S. Kaufman

x Winning work:: Of Thee I Sing

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Morrie Ryskind

Morrie Ryskind (20 October 1895, New York City - 24 August 1985, Washington, D.C.) was an American dramatist, lyricist and director on theatrical productions and motion pictures. Ryskind earned credits for script and lyric writing, and directing...

Awards Won

x Year:: 1932

x Award:: Pulitzer Prize for Drama

x Award Winner:: Ira Gershwin,; George S. Kaufman

x Winning work:: Of Thee I Sing

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Maxwell Anderson

James Maxwell Anderson (15 December 1888 – 28 February 1959) was an American playwright, author, poet, journalist and lyricist. He was a founding member of The Playwrights Company. Anderson was born in Atlantic, Pennsylvania, the second child of...

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x Year:: 1933

x Award:: Pulitzer Prize for Drama

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x Winning work:: Both Your Houses

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Sidney Kingsley

Sidney Kingsley (22 October 1906 - 20 March 1995) was an American dramatist. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his play Men in White in 1934. Kingsley was born Sidney Kirschner in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He studied at Cornell...

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x Year:: 1934

x Award:: Pulitzer Prize for Drama

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x Winning work:: Men in White

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Zoe Akins

Zoë Akins (30 October 1886 – 29 October 1958) was an American playwright, poet, and author. Born in Humansville, Missouri, Akins was educated in Illinois and later in St. Louis, where she began her writing career. While living in the city, she wrote...

Awards Won

x Year:: 1935

x Award:: Pulitzer Prize for Drama

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x Winning work:: The Old Maid

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Eugene O'Neill

Eugene Gladstone O'Neill (16 October 1888 – 27 November 1953) was an American playwright, and Nobel laureate in Literature. His plays are among the first to introduce into American drama the techniques of realism, associated with Russian playwright...

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x Year:: 1936

x Award:: Nobel Prize in Literature

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x Year:: 1957

x Award:: Pulitzer Prize for Drama

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x Winning work:: Long Day's Journey Into Night

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x Year:: 1920

x Award:: Pulitzer Prize for Drama

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x Winning work:: Beyond the Horizon

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Robert E. Sherwood

Robert Emmet Sherwood (4 April 1896 – 14 November 1955) American playwright, editor, and screenwriter. Born in New Rochelle, New York, he was the son of the prominent American portrait artist Rosina Emmet Sherwood. He was the great-great-grandson of...

Awards Won

x Year:: 1936

x Award:: Pulitzer Prize for Drama

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x Winning work:: Idiot's Delight

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x Year:: 1939

x Award:: Pulitzer Prize for Drama

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x Winning work:: Abe Lincoln in Illinois

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x Year:: 1941

x Award:: Pulitzer Prize for Drama

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x Winning work:: There Shall Be No Night

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George S. Kaufman

George Simon Kaufman (16 November 1889 - 2 June 1961) was an American playwright, theatre director and producer, humorist, and drama critic. Born to a Jewish family in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania he graduated from high school in 1907 and pursued legal...

Awards Won

x Year:: 1937

x Award:: Pulitzer Prize for Drama

x Award Winner:: Moss Hart

x Winning work:: You Can't Take It with You

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x Year:: 1932

x Award:: Pulitzer Prize for Drama

x Award Winner:: Ira Gershwin,; Morrie Ryskind

x Winning work:: Of Thee I Sing

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Moss Hart

Moss Hart (24 October 1904 – 20 December 1961) was an American playwright and director of plays and musical theater. Hart was born in New York City and grew up at 74 East 105th Street in Manhattan, “a neighborhood not of carriages and hansom cabs,...

Awards Won

x Year:: 1937

x Award:: Pulitzer Prize for Drama

x Award Winner:: George S. Kaufman

x Winning work:: You Can't Take It with You

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William Saroyan

William Saroyan (pronounced /səˈrɔɪən/; 31 August 1908 - 18 May 1981) was an Armenian-American dramatist and author. The setting of many of his stories and plays is the center of Armenian-American life in California in his native Fresno. Saroyan was...

Awards Won

x Year:: 1940

x Award:: Pulitzer Prize for Drama

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x Winning work:: The Time of Your Life

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x Year:: 1943

x Award:: Academy Award for Best Story

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x Winning work:: The Human Comedy

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Mary Coyle Chase

Mary Coyle Chase (25 February 1906 – 20 October 1981) was an American journalist, playwright and screenwriter, known primarily for writing the Broadway play Harvey, later adapted for film starring James Stewart. She wrote fourteen plays, two...

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x Year:: 1945

x Award:: Pulitzer Prize for Drama

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x Winning work:: Harvey

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Russel Crouse

Russel Crouse (20 February 1893 – 3 April 1966) was an American playwright and librettist, best known for his work in the Broadway writing partnership of Lindsay and Crouse. Born in Findlay, Ohio, Crouse began his Broadway career in 1928 as an actor...

Awards Won

x Year:: 1946

x Award:: Pulitzer Prize for Drama

x Award Winner:: Howard Lindsay

x Winning work:: State of the Union

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Howard Lindsay

Howard Lindsay (29 March 1889 - 11 February 1968) was an American theatrical producer, playwright, librettist, director and actor. He is best known for his writing work as part of the collaboration of Lindsay and Crouse, and for his performance,...

Awards Won

x Year:: 1946

x Award:: Pulitzer Prize for Drama

x Award Winner:: Russel Crouse

x Winning work:: State of the Union

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Tennessee Williams

Tennessee Williams (born March 26, 1911 – February 25, 1983), né Thomas Lanier Williams, was an American playwright who received many of the top theatrical awards for his works of drama. He moved to New Orleans in 1939 and changed his name to ...

Awards Won

x Year:: 1948

x Award:: Pulitzer Prize for Drama

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x Winning work:: A Streetcar Named Desire

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x Year:: 1955

x Award:: Pulitzer Prize for Drama

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x Winning work:: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

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x Year:: 1974

x Award:: St. Louis Literary Award

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Arthur Miller

Arthur Asher Miller (October 17, 1915 – February 10, 2005) was an American playwright and essayist. He was a prominent figure in American theatre, writing dramas that include awards-winning plays such as All My Sons, Death of a Salesman, and The...

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x Year:: 1949

x Award:: Pulitzer Prize for Drama

x Award Winner:

x Winning work:: Death of a Salesman

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x Year:: 2001

x Award:: Medal of Distinguished Contribution to American Letters

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x Year:: 1941

x Award:: Academy Award for Best Cinematography

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x Winning work:: How Green Was My Valley

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Oscar Hammerstein II

Oscar Greeley Clendenning Hammerstein II (pronounced /ˈhæmərstaɪn/; July 12, 1895 – August 23, 1960) was an American writer, theatrical producer, and (usually uncredited) theatre director of musicals for almost forty years. Hammerstein won eight...

Awards Won

x Year:: 1950

x Award:: Pulitzer Prize for Drama

x Award Winner:: Joshua Logan,; Richard Rodgers

x Winning work:: South Pacific

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x Year:: 1945

x Award:: Oscar for Best Song

x Award Winner:: Richard Rodgers

x Winning work:: It Might as Well Be Spring

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x Year:: 1941

x Award:: Oscar for Best Song

x Award Winner:: Jerome Kern

x Winning work:: The Last Time I Saw Paris

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Richard Rodgers

Richard Charles Rodgers (June 28, 1902 – December 30, 1979) was an American composer of music for more than 900 songs and for 43 Broadway musicals. He also composed music for films and television. He is best known for his songwriting partnerships...

Awards Won

x Year:: 1950

x Award:: Pulitzer Prize for Drama

x Award Winner:: Joshua Logan,; Oscar Hammerstein II

x Winning work:: South Pacific

x Notes/Description:

x Year:: 1945

x Award:: Oscar for Best Song

x Award Winner:: Oscar Hammerstein II

x Winning work:: It Might as Well Be Spring

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Joshua Logan

Joshua Lockwood Logan III (5 October 1908 – 12 July 1988) was an American stage and film director and writer. Logan was born in Texarkana, Texas. His father died when Logan was only three, and his mother remarried six years later. He was reared in...

Awards Won

x Year:: 1950

x Award:: Pulitzer Prize for Drama

x Award Winner:: Oscar Hammerstein II,; Richard Rodgers

x Winning work:: South Pacific

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x Year:: 1956

x Award:: Golden Globe Award for Best Director - Motion Picture

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x Winning work:: Picnic

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Joseph Kramm

Joseph A. Kramm (30 September 1907, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - 8 May 1991) was an American playwright, actor, and director. He received Pulitzer Prize for Drama in in 1951 for his play The Shrike, later adapted into a motion picture of the same...

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x Year:: 1952

x Award:: Pulitzer Prize for Drama

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x Winning work:: The Shrike

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William Inge

William Motter Inge (pronounced /ˈɪndʒ/ "inj") (May 3, 1913(1913-05-03) – June 10, 1973) was an American playwright and novelist, whose works typically feature solitary protagonists encumbered with strained sexual relations. In the early 1950s, he...

Awards Won

x Year:: 1961

x Award:: Oscar for Writing Original Screenplay

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x Winning work:: Splendor in the Grass

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x Year:: 1953

x Award:: Pulitzer Prize for Drama

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x Winning work:: Picnic

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John Patrick

John Patrick (17 May 1905 – 7 November 1995) was an American playwright and screenwriter. Born John Patrick Goggan in Louisville, Kentucky, his parents soon abandoned him and he spent a delinquent youth in foster homes and boarding schools. At age...

Awards Won

x Year:: 1954

x Award:: Pulitzer Prize for Drama

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x Winning work:: The Teahouse of the August Moon

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Albert Hackett

Albert Maurice Hackett (16 February 1900 – 16 March 1995) was an American dramatist and screenwriter most noted for his collaborations with his partner and wife Frances Goodrich. Hackett was born to actors Arthur V. Johnson and Florence Hackett in...

Awards Won

x Year:: 1956

x Award:: Pulitzer Prize for Drama

x Award Winner:: Frances Goodrich

x Winning work:: The Diary of Anne Frank

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Frances Goodrich

Frances Goodrich (21 December 1890 – 29 January 1984) was an American dramatist andscreenwriter, best-known for her collaborations with her partner and husband Albert Hackett. Goodrich was born to Henry Wickes and Madeleine Christy Lloyd Goodrich in...

Awards Won

x Year:: 1956

x Award:: Pulitzer Prize for Drama

x Award Winner:: Albert Hackett

x Winning work:: The Diary of Anne Frank

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Ketti Frings

Ketti Frings (28 February 1909 – 11 February 1981) was an American author, playwright, and screenwriter. Born Katherine Hartley in Columbus, Ohio, Frings attended Principia College, began her career as a copywriter, and went on to work as a feature...

Awards Won

x Year:: 1958

x Award:: Pulitzer Prize for Drama

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x Winning work:: Look Homeward, Angel

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Archibald MacLeish

Archibald MacLeish (7 May 1892 – 20 April 1982) was an American poet, writer and the Librarian of Congress. He is associated with the modernist school of poetry. He has received three Pulitzer Prizes for his work. MacLeish was born in Glencoe,...

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x Year:: 1959

x Award:: Pulitzer Prize for Drama

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x Winning work:: J.B.

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x Year:: 1953

x Award:: Bollingen Prize

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x Year:: 1953

x Award:: National Book Award for Poetry

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x Winning work:: Collected Poems, 1917-1952

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George Abbott

George Francis Abbott (June 25, 1887 – January 31, 1995) was an American theater producer and director, playwright, screenwriter, and film director and producer whose career spanned more than seven decades. Abbott was born in Forestville, New York,...

Awards Won

x Year:: 1960

x Award:: Pulitzer Prize for Drama

x Award Winner:: Jerome Weidman,; Jerry Bock,; Sheldon Harnick

x Winning work:: Fiorello!

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Sheldon Harnick

Sheldon Harnick (born 30 April 1924) is an American lyricist best known for his collaborations with composer Jerry Bock on hit musicals such as Fiddler on the Roof. Harnick began his career writing words and music to comic songs in musical revues....

Awards Won

x Year:: 1960

x Award:: Pulitzer Prize for Drama

x Award Winner:: George Abbott,; Jerome Weidman,; Jerry Bock

x Winning work:: Fiorello!

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Jerome Weidman

Jerome Weidman (April 4, 1913, New York City - October 6, 1998, New York City) was an American playwright and novelist. He collaborated with George Abbott on the book for the musical Fiorello! with music by Jerry Bock, and lyrics by Sheldon Harnick....

Awards Won

x Year:: 1960

x Award:: Pulitzer Prize for Drama

x Award Winner:: George Abbott,; Jerry Bock,; Sheldon Harnick

x Winning work:: Fiorello!

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Jerry Bock

Jerrold Lewis Bock (born 23 November 1928) is an American musical theatre composer. Born in New Haven, Connecticut and raised in Flushing, New York, Bock studied the piano as a child. He attended the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he wrote...

Awards Won

x Year:: 1960

x Award:: Pulitzer Prize for Drama

x Award Winner:: George Abbott,; Jerome Weidman,; Sheldon Harnick

x Winning work:: Fiorello!

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Tad Mosel

Tad Mosel (1 May 1922 - 24 August 2008) was an American playwright and one of the leading dramatists of hour-long teleplay genre for live television during the 1950s. He received the 1961 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his play All the Way Home. Mosel...

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x Year:: 1961

x Award:: Pulitzer Prize for Drama

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x Winning work:: All the Way Home

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Frank Loesser

Frank Henry Loesser (June 29, 1910 – July 26, 1969) was an American songwriter who wrote the scores to the Broadway hits Guys And Dolls and How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying, among others. He won separate Tony Awards for the music and...

Awards Won

x Year:: 1962

x Award:: Pulitzer Prize for Drama

x Award Winner:: Abe Burrows

x Winning work:: How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying

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x Year:: 1949

x Award:: Oscar for Best Song

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x Winning work:: Baby, It's Cold Outside

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Abe Burrows

Abe Burrows (18 December 1910 – 17 May 1985) was an American humorist, author, and director for radio and the stage. Born Abram Solman Borowitz in New York City, Burrows graduated New Utrecht High School in Brooklyn and later attended both City...

Awards Won

x Year:: 1962

x Award:: Pulitzer Prize for Drama

x Award Winner:: Frank Loesser

x Winning work:: How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying

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x Year:: 1975

x Award:: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series

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x Year:: 1976

x Award:: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series

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Frank D. Gilroy

Frank Daniel Gilroy (born 13 October 1925) is an American playwright, screenwriter, and film producer and director. He received the Tony Award for Best Play and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his play The Subject Was Roses in 1965. Gilroy was born...

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x Year:: 1965

x Award:: Pulitzer Prize for Drama

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x Winning work:: The Subject Was Roses

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Edward Albee

Edward Franklin Albee III (pronounced /ˈɔːlbiː/ AWL-bee; born March 12, 1928) is an American playwright best known for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Zoo Story, A Delicate Balance and Seascape (play). His works are considered well-crafted,...

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x Year:: 1967

x Award:: Pulitzer Prize for Drama

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x Winning work:: A Delicate Balance

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x Year:: 1975

x Award:: Pulitzer Prize for Drama

x Award Winner:

x Winning work:: Seascape

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x Year:: 1994

x Award:: Pulitzer Prize for Drama

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x Winning work:: Three Tall Women

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Howard Sackler

Howard Oliver Sackler (December 19, 1929 – October 12, 1982), was an American screenwriter and playwright who is best known for writing The Great White Hope (play: 1967; film: 1970). The Great White Hope enjoyed both a successful run on Broadway and...

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x Year:: 1969

x Award:: Pulitzer Prize for Drama

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x Winning work:: The Great White Hope

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Charles Gordone

Charles Edward Gordone (12 October 1925 - 16 November 1995) was an American playwright, actor, director, and educator. He was the first African American to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and devoted much of his professional life to the...

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x Year:: 1970

x Award:: Pulitzer Prize for Drama

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x Winning work:: No Place To Be Somebody

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Paul Zindel

Paul Zindel (15 May 1936 – 27 March 2003) was an American playwright, author, and educator. Zindel was born on Staten Island, New York to Paul Zindel, a policeman, and Betty Frank, a nurse. Through his teen years he wrote plays, though he trained as...

Awards Won

x Year:: 1971

x Award:: Pulitzer Prize for Drama

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x Winning work:: The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds

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Jason Miller

Jason Miller (April 22, 1939 – May 13, 2001) was an American actor and playwright. He received the 1973 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his play That Championship Season, and was widely recognized for his role as Father Damien Karras in the 1973 horror...

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x Year:: 1973

x Award:: Pulitzer Prize for Drama

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x Winning work:: That Championship Season

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James Kirkwood, Jr.

James Kirkwood, Jr. (August 22, 1924 – April 21, 1989) was an American playwright and author. In 1976 he received the Tony Award, the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Book of a Musical, and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for the Broadway hit A Chorus...

Awards Won

x Year:: 1976

x Award:: Pulitzer Prize for Drama

x Award Winner:: Michael Bennett,; Nicholas Dante,; Edward Kleban

x Winning work:: A Chorus Line

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Michael Bennett

Michael Bennett (April 8, 1943 – July 2, 1987) was an American musical theater director, writer, choreographer, and dancer. He won seven Tony Awards for his choreography and direction of Broadway shows and was nominated for an additional eleven....

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x Year:: 1976

x Award:: Pulitzer Prize for Drama

x Award Winner:: Nicholas Dante,; Edward Kleban,; James Kirkwood, Jr.

x Winning work:: A Chorus Line

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Edward Kleban

Edward “Ed” Kleban (April 30, 1939 - December 28, 1987) was an American musical theatre composer and lyricist. A graduate of New York's High School of Music & Art and Columbia University, Kleban wrote the lyrics for the Broadway hit A Chorus Line....

Awards Won

x Year:: 1976

x Award:: Pulitzer Prize for Drama

x Award Winner:: Michael Bennett,; Nicholas Dante,; James Kirkwood, Jr.

x Winning work:: A Chorus Line

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Marvin Hamlisch

Marvin Frederick Hamlisch (born June 2, 1944) is an American composer. He is one of only two people to have been awarded an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, a Tony and a Pulitzer Prize (the other is Richard Rodgers). Hamlisch has also won a Golden Globe....

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x Year:: 1976

x Award:: Pulitzer Prize for Drama

x Award Winner:: Michael Bennett,; Nicholas Dante,; Edward Kleban,; more ▼

x Winning work:: A Chorus Line

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x Year:: 1973

x Award:: Oscar for Best Song

x Award Winner:: Alan Bergman,; Marilyn Bergman

x Winning work:: The Way We Were

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x Year:: 1974

x Award:: Grammy Award for Best New Artist

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Nicholas Dante

Nicholas Dante (November 22, 1941 - May 21, 1991) was an American dancer and writer, best known for the hit musical A Chorus Line. Born Conrado Morales in New York City to Puerto Rican parents, Dante's early career was spent dancing in the chorus of...

Awards Won

x Year:: 1976

x Award:: Pulitzer Prize for Drama

x Award Winner:: Michael Bennett,; Edward Kleban,; James Kirkwood, Jr.

x Winning work:: A Chorus Line

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Michael Cristofer

Michael Ivan Cristofer (born 22 January 1945, Trenton, New Jersey) is an American playwright and filmmaker. He received Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony Award for Best Play for The Shadow Box in 1977. Michael Cristofer was awarded a Pulitzer...

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x Year:: 1977

x Award:: Pulitzer Prize for Drama

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x Winning work:: The Shadow Box

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Donald L. Coburn

Donald L. Coburn (born 4 August 1938) is an American dramatist. He received the 1978 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his play, The Gin Game. Coburn was born in Baltimore, Maryland to parents who divorced two years later. He graduated from high school...

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x Year:: 1978

x Award:: Pulitzer Prize for Drama

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x Winning work:: The Gin Game

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Sam Shepard

Sam Shepard (born November 5, 1943) is an American playwright, actor, and television and film director. He is author of several books of short stories, essays, and memoirs, and received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1979 for his play, Buried Child...

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x Year:: 1979

x Award:: Pulitzer Prize for Drama

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x Winning work:: Buried Child

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Lanford Wilson

Lanford Wilson (born 13 April 1937) is an American playwright, considered one of the founders of the Off-off Broadway theater movement. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1980, elected in 2001 to the Theater Hall of Fame, and in 2004...

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x Year:: 1980

x Award:: Pulitzer Prize for Drama

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x Winning work:: Talley's Folly

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x Year:: 2004

x Award:: Laura Pels Foundation Awards for Drama

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Beth Henley

Elizabeth Becker "Beth" Henley (born May 8, 1952, Jackson, Mississippi) is an American dramatist and actress. She received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1981 for her play, Crimes of the Heart (1978). Her most famous play, Crimes of the Heart, was...

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x Year:: 1981

x Award:: Pulitzer Prize for Drama

x Award Winner:

x Winning work:: Crimes of the Heart

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Charles Fuller

Charles H. Fuller, Jr. (born 5 March 1939) is an American playwright, best known for his play, A Soldier's Play for which he received the 1982 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Fuller was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1939, the son of Charles H....

Awards Won

x Year:: 1982

x Award:: Pulitzer Prize for Drama

x Award Winner:

x Winning work:: A Soldier's Play

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