Which American playwright has won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama the most times-four-including posthumously in 1957?
Pulitzer Prize for Drama the identity of finalists was first disclosed, three musicals have been finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. They are: Lee Breuer and Bob Telson's "The Gospel at Colonus" (1985); Lin-Manuel Miranda and Quiara Alegría Hudes' "In the Heights" (2009); and Jeanine Tesori and Lisa Kron's "Fun Home" (2014). The latter two shows, however, each won the Tony Award for Best Musical. Eugene O'Neill won the Pulitzer for Drama four times, three in the 1920s. Several people have won two or three. The most recipients of the prize in one Prize year was in 1976, when five people—Michael Bennett, James
Pulitzer Prize for Drama Kirkwood, Jr., Nicholas Dante, Marvin Hamlisch, and Edward Kleban—shared the prize for the musical "A Chorus Line". Lynn Nottage is the only female playwright to win the prize twice. She and August Wilson are the only playwrights of color to accomplish this feat. Pulitzer Prize for Drama The Pulitzer Prize for Drama is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes that are annually awarded for Letters, Drama, and Music. It is one of the original Pulitzers, for the program was inaugurated in 1917 with seven prizes, four of which were awarded that year. (No Drama prize was given, however, so