Pulitzer Prize for Drama Winners (1939-1961)

1944

• no award given

• Best Picture Award

• Best Director Award

• Best Actor Award

1952

• The Shrike by Joseph Kramm

• The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

• The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

1959

• J B by Archibald MacLeish

• The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

• On the Road by Jack Kerouac

• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

1942

• no award given

• Best Picture Award

• Best Director Award

• Best Actor Award

1958

• Look Homeward, Angel by Ketti Frings

• The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

• The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

1956

• The Diary of Anne Frank by Albert Hackett and Frances Goodrich

• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

• 1984 by George Orwell

1947

• no award given

• Best Picture awarded

• Best Director awarded

• Best Actor awarded

1940

• The Time of Your Life by William Saroyan

• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

• 1984 by George Orwell

1941

• There Shall Be No Night by Robert E Sherwood

• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

• 1984 by George Orwell

1949

• Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

• The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

• The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway