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LITERATURE
Awards
Authors with the Most Pulitzer Prize for Drama Award Wins
This list features the authors that have been awarded multiple Pulitzer Prizes for Drama.
RANK | AUTHOR | AWARD WINS | WINNING DRAMA |
1 | Eugene O’Neill | 4 | Beyond the Horizon (1920) Anna Christie (1922) Strange Interlude (1928) Long Day’s Journey Into Night (1957) |
2 | Edward Albee | 3 | A Delicate Balance (1967) Seascape (1975) Three Tall Women (1994) |
3 | Robert E. Sherwood | 3 | Idiot’s Delight (1926) Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1939) There Shall Be No Night (1941) |
4 | August Wilson | 2 | Fences (1987) The Piano Lesson (1990) |
5 | George S. Kaufman | 2 | Of Thee I Sing (1932) You Can’t Take It With You (1937) |
6 | Lynn Nottage | 2 | Ruined (2009) Sweat (2017) |
7 | Thornton Wilder | 2 | Our Town (1938) The Skin of Our Teeth (1943) |
8 | Tennessee Williams | 2 | A Streetcar Named Desire (1948) Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955) |
References
Pulitzer Prize, (n.d.). Pulitzer Prize winners by category: Fiction. [online] Available at: https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-category/219 [Accessed 1 December 2025].
Pulitzer Prize for Drama. (2025). Wikipedia. Retrieved from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulitzer_Prize_for_Drama[Accessed 1 December 2025].
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