| A | B |
|---|
| You Can't Take It with You (1937) | Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman |
| Our Town (1938) | Thornton Wilder |
| Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1939) | Robert E. Sherwood |
| The Time of Your Life (1940) | William Saroyan (prize declined) |
| The Shall Be No Night (1941) | Robert E. Sherwood |
| 1942 | No Award 1 |
| the Skin of Our Teeth (1943) | Thornton Wilder |
| 1944 | No Award 2 |
| Harvey (1945) | Mary Chase |
| State of the Union (1946) | Russel Crouse and Howard Lindsay |
| 1947 | No Award 3 |
| A Streetcar Named Desire (1948) | Tennessee Williams |
