• 1918 - Jesse Lynch Williams, Why Marry?
  • 1919 - no award given
  • 1920 - Eugene O'Neill, Beyond the Horizon
  • 1921 - Zona Gale, Miss Lulu Bett
  • 1922 - Eugene O'Neill, Anna Christie
  • 1923 - Owen Davis, Icebound
  • 1924 - Hatcher Hughes, Hell-Bent Fer Heaven
  • 1925 - Sidney Howard, They Knew What They Wanted
  • 1926 - George Kelly, Craig's Wife
  • 1927 - Paul Green, In Abraham's Bosom
  • 1928 - Eugene O'Neill, Strange Interlude
  • 1929 - Elmer L. Rice, Street Scene
  • 1930 - Marc Connelly, The Green Pastures
  • 1931 - Susan Glaspell, Alison's House
  • 1932 - George S. Kaufman, Morrie Ryskind, Ira Gershwin, Of Thee I Sing
  • 1933 - Maxwell Anderson, Both Your Houses
  • 1934 - Sidney Kingsley, Men in White
  • 1935 - Zoe Akins, The Old Maid
  • 1936 - Robert E. Sherwood, Idiots Delight
  • 1937 - Moss Hart, George S. Kaufman, You Can't Take It With You
  • 1938 - Thornton Wilder, Our Town
  • 1939 - Robert E. Sherwood, Abe Lincoln in Illinois
  • 1940 - William Saroyan, The Time of Your Life
  • 1941 - Robert E. Sherwood, There Shall Be No Night
  • 1942 - no award given
  • 1943 - Thornton Wilder, The Skin of Our Teeth
  • 1944 - no award given
  • 1945 - Mary Chase, Harvey
  • 1946 - Russel Crouse, Howard Lindsay, State of the Union
  • 1947 - no award given
  • 1948 - Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire
  • 1949 - Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman
  • 1950 - Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II, Joshua Logan, South Pacific
  • 1951 - no award given
  • 1952 - Joseph Kramm, The Shrike
  • 1953 - William Inge, Picnic
  • 1954 - John Patrick, The Teahouse of the August Moon
  • 1955 - Tennessee Williams, Cat on A Hot Tin Roof
  • 1956 - Albert Hackett, Frances Goodrich, Diary of Anne Frank
  • 1957 - Eugene O'Neill, Long Day's Journey Into Night
  • 1958 - Ketti Frings, Look Homeward, Angel
  • 1959 - Archibald Macleish, J. B.
  • 1960 - Jerome Weidman, George Abbott for book' Jerry Bock for music, and Sheldon Harnick for lyrics, ''Fiorello!'
  • 1961 - Tad Mosel, All The Way Home
  • 1962 - Frank Loesser, Abe Burrows, How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying
  • 1963 - no award given
  • 1964 - no award given
  • 1965 - Frank D. Gilroy, The Subject Was Roses
  • 1966 - no award given
  • 1967 - Edward Albee, A Delicate Balance
  • 1968 - no award given
  • 1969 - Howard Sackler, The Great White Hope
  • 1970 - Charles Gordone, No Place To Be Somebody
  • 1971 - Paul Zindel, The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-In-The-Moon Marigolds
  • 1972 - no award given
  • 1973 - Jason Miller, That Championship Season
  • 1974 - no award given
  • 1975 - Edward Albee, Seascape
  • 1976 - Michael Bennett for concept, choreography, and direction; James Kirkwood for book, Marvin Hamlisch for lyrics, Nicholas Dante for music, A Chorus Line
  • 1977 - Michael Cristofer, The Shadow Box
  • 1978 - Donald L. Coburn, The Gin Game
  • 1979 - Sam Shepard, Buried Child
  • 1980 - Lanford Wilson, Talley's Folly
  • 1981 - Beth Henley, Crimes of the Heart
  • 1982 - Charles Fuller, A Soldier's Play
  • 1983 - Marsha Norman, 'Night, Mother
  • 1984 - David Mamet, Glengarry Glen Ross
  • 1985 - James Lapine for book; Stephen Sondheim for music and lyrics, Sunday in the Park With George
  • 1986 - no award given
  • 1987 - August Wilson, Fences
  • 1988 - Alfred Uhry, Driving Miss Daisy
  • 1989 - Wendy Wasserstein, The Heidi Chronicles
  • 1990 - August Wilson, The Piano Lesson
  • 1991 - Neil Simon, Lost in Yonkers
  • 1992 - Robert Schenkkan, The Kentucky Cycle
  • 1993 - Tony Kushner, Angels in America: Millennium Approaches
  • 1994 - Edward Albee, Three Tall Women
  • 1995 - Horton Foote, The Young Man From Atlanta
  • 1996 - Jonathan Larson, Rent
  • 1997 - no award given
  • 1998 - Paula Vogel, How I Learned to Drive
  • 1999 - Margaret Edson, Wit
  • 2000 - Donald Margulies, Dinner With Friends
  • 2001 - David Auburn, Proof
  • 2002 - Suzan-Lori Parks, Topdog/Underdog