Tony Award for Best Author

The Tony Award for Best Author is a now retired category once presented to playwrights, authors and librettists of theatrical plays and musicals. Only nine awards were presented from 1947 to 1965, and it is often grouped with the category Best Book of a Musical.

Tony Award for Best Author
Awarded for	Best Author
Location	United States New York City
Presented by	American Theatre Wing The Broadway League
Website	TonyAwards.com

Winners and nominees

  indicates the winner

1940s

Year	Author	Production
1947 1st Tony Awards
	Arthur Miller	All My Sons
1948 2nd Tony Awards
	Thomas Heggen and Joshua Logan	Mister Roberts
1949 3rd Tony Awards
	Arthur Miller	Death of a Salesman
	Samuel and Bella Spewack	Kiss Me, Kate

1960s

Year	Author	Production
1962 16th Tony Awards
	Abe Burrows, Jack Weinstock and Willie Gilbert	How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
	Michael Stewart and Helen Deutsch	Carnival!
1963 17th Tony Awards
	Burt Shevelove and Larry Gelbart	A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
	Lionel Bart	Oliver!
	Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley	Stop the World – I Want to Get Off
	Neil Simon	Little Me
1964 18th Tony Awards
	Michael Stewart	Hello, Dolly!
	Noël Coward and Harry Kurnitz	The Girl Who Came to Supper
	Timothy Gray and Hugh Martin	High Spirits
	Joe Masteroff	She Loves Me
1965 19th Tony Awards
	Neil Simon	The Odd Couple
	Joseph Stein	Fiddler on the Roof
	Edward Albee	Tiny Alice
	Jerome Coopersmith	Baker Street
	Beverley Cross	Half a Sixpence
	Frank D. Gilroy	The Subject Was Roses
	Sidney Michaels	Ben Franklin in Paris
	Murray Schisgal	Luv

See also

• Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Book of a Musical
• Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical

External links

• Tony Awards Official site
• Tony Awards at Internet Broadway database Listing
• Tony Awards at broadwayworld.com