The 20 Women Playwrights Who Have Won Pulitzer Prizes

The 20 Women Playwrights Who Have Won Pulitzer Prizes

In honor of Women’s History Month, here are the 20 women playwrights who have won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, an annual award given for “a distinguished play by an American author…dealing with American life” that began in 1917, and will be awarded next on May 5, 2025. It might be worth noting that in the first half of the twentieth century, a woman was awarded the prize an average of once every ten years, followed by a gap of 23 years. The int…