2006 none awarded
2005 John Patrick Shanley for Doubt, parable.
2004 Doug Wright for I Am My Own Wife
2003 Nilo Cruz for Anna in the Tropics
2002 Suzan-Lori Parks for Topdog/Underdog
2001 David Auburn for Proof
2000 Donald Margulies for Dinner With Friends
1999 Margaret Edson for Wit
1998 Paula Vogel for How I Learned To Drive
1997 none awarded
1996 Jonathan Larson for Rent
1995 Horton Foote for The Young Man From Atlanta
1994 Edward Albee for Three Tall Women
1993 Tony Kushner for Angels in America Millennium Approaches
1992 Robert Schenkkan for The Kentucky Cycle
1991 Neil Simon for Lost in Yonkers
1990 August Wilson for The Piano Lesson
1989 Wendy Wasserstein for The Heidi Chronicles
1988 Alfred Uhry for Driving Miss Daisy
1987 August Wilson for Fences
1986 none awarded
1985 James Lapine and Stephen Sondheim for Sunday in the Park with George
1984 David Mamet for Glengarry Glen Ross
1983 Marsha Norman for 'Night for Mother
1982 Charles Fuller for A Soldier's Play
1981 Beth Henley for Crimes of the Heart
1980 Lanford Wilson for Talley's Folly
1979 Sam Shepard for Buried Child
1978 Donald L. Coburn for The Gin Game
1977 Michael Cristofer for The Shadow Box
1976 Many/Various for A Chorus Line
1975 Edward Albee for Seascape
1974 none awarded
1973 Jason Miller for That Championship Season
1972 none awarded
1971 Paul Zindel for The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds
1970 Charles Gordone for No Place To Be Somebody
1969 Howard Sackler for The Great White Hope
1968 none awarded
1967 Edward Albee for A Delicate Balance
1966 none awarded
1965 Frank D. Gilroy for The Subject Was Roses
1964 none awarded
1963 none awarded
1962 Frank Loesser & Abe Burrows for How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying
1961 Tad Mosel for All The Way Home
1960 Jerome Weidman and Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick for Fiorello!
1959 Archibald MacLeish for J.B.
1958 Ketti Frings for Look Homeward for Angel
1957 Eugene O'Neill for Long Day's Journey Into Night
1956 Albert Hackett and Frances Goodrich for Diary of Anne Frank
1955 Tennessee Williams for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
1954 John Patrick for The Teahouse of the August Moon
1953 William Inge for Picnic
1952 Joseph Kramm for The Shrike
1951 none awarded
1950 Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II and Joshua Logan for South Pacific
1949 Arthur Miller for Death of a Salesman
1948 Tennessee Williams for A Streetcar Named Desire
2005 John Patrick Shanley for Doubt, parable.
2004 Doug Wright for I Am My Own Wife
2003 Nilo Cruz for Anna in the Tropics
2002 Suzan-Lori Parks for Topdog/Underdog
2001 David Auburn for Proof
2000 Donald Margulies for Dinner With Friends
1999 Margaret Edson for Wit
1998 Paula Vogel for How I Learned To Drive
1997 none awarded
1996 Jonathan Larson for Rent
1995 Horton Foote for The Young Man From Atlanta
1994 Edward Albee for Three Tall Women
1993 Tony Kushner for Angels in America Millennium Approaches
1992 Robert Schenkkan for The Kentucky Cycle
1991 Neil Simon for Lost in Yonkers
1990 August Wilson for The Piano Lesson
1989 Wendy Wasserstein for The Heidi Chronicles
1988 Alfred Uhry for Driving Miss Daisy
1987 August Wilson for Fences
1986 none awarded
1985 James Lapine and Stephen Sondheim for Sunday in the Park with George
1984 David Mamet for Glengarry Glen Ross
1983 Marsha Norman for 'Night for Mother
1982 Charles Fuller for A Soldier's Play
1981 Beth Henley for Crimes of the Heart
1980 Lanford Wilson for Talley's Folly
1979 Sam Shepard for Buried Child
1978 Donald L. Coburn for The Gin Game
1977 Michael Cristofer for The Shadow Box
1976 Many/Various for A Chorus Line
1975 Edward Albee for Seascape
1974 none awarded
1973 Jason Miller for That Championship Season
1972 none awarded
1971 Paul Zindel for The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds
1970 Charles Gordone for No Place To Be Somebody
1969 Howard Sackler for The Great White Hope
1968 none awarded
1967 Edward Albee for A Delicate Balance
1966 none awarded
1965 Frank D. Gilroy for The Subject Was Roses
1964 none awarded
1963 none awarded
1962 Frank Loesser & Abe Burrows for How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying
1961 Tad Mosel for All The Way Home
1960 Jerome Weidman and Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick for Fiorello!
1959 Archibald MacLeish for J.B.
1958 Ketti Frings for Look Homeward for Angel
1957 Eugene O'Neill for Long Day's Journey Into Night
1956 Albert Hackett and Frances Goodrich for Diary of Anne Frank
1955 Tennessee Williams for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
1954 John Patrick for The Teahouse of the August Moon
1953 William Inge for Picnic
1952 Joseph Kramm for The Shrike
1951 none awarded
1950 Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II and Joshua Logan for South Pacific
1949 Arthur Miller for Death of a Salesman
1948 Tennessee Williams for A Streetcar Named Desire