She argues that the convergence of sexism and racism during slavery contributed to black women having the lowest status and worst conditions of any group in American society.

She contributed to the resurgence of the Russian nobility that began after the death of Peter the Great.

She was just one of the many African American quilters who contributed to the evolution of quilting.

She has released seven studio albums, two compilations, and a live album, and has contributed to various film soundtracks.

She contributed background vocals to the Ryan Adams song " Two " from the album Easy Tiger.

She contributed to The Lathe of Heaven, a 1979 PBS film based on her novel of the same name.

She had already contributed backup vocals and painted the cover for Kiln House.

She and her husband Frank Bunker Gilbreth, Sr. were efficiency experts who contributed to the study of industrial engineering in fields such as motion study and human factors.

She contributed vocals to their 1996 album, Join the Ranks, on the track " Waitin ' 4 The Streets ".

She was severely injured in a 1982 vehicle collision, which contributed to her death two years later.

She always made it clear that, whilst her life, which included a spell of severe mental illness, contributed to the themes contained within her work, she did not write explicitly autobiographical poetry.

She met Garrel in 1969 and contributed the song " The Falconer " to his film Le Lit de la Vierge.

She has widely contributed to the creation of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, of which governing board she became the first Chairman in 1966.

She contributed articles, reviews and stories to various magazines and newspapers on art, literature and prominent people.

She also contributed several articles to Pauly-Wissowa's Realencyclopädie.

She contributed much of her character to Roman Minerva.

She and her sister contributed folk tales from Westphalia to the Grimms ' famous collection of fairy stories.

She became renowned for her social graces and hospitality, and contributed to her husband's popularity as president.

She has contributed articles for the Los Angeles Times, The Believer, and McSweeney's.

She has continued to make television guest appearances and contributed voices to various cartoons, including Animaniacs, Aladdin, and as the original voice of Zatanna in the Batman: The Animated Series cartoon.

She has contributed ten issues each to the high-profile Vertigo series Sandman ( penciling the complete " Brief Lives " storyline, part 7 of which was the first Vertigo issue ) and The Invisibles, and penciled four of the last five issues of Seekers into the Mystery.

She has produced fill-in issues of Books of Magic, The Dreaming and Swamp Thing and contributed artwork to the anthology comics Fables # 59 ( in addition to a story in the hardcover OGN 1001 Nights of Snowfall ) and Transmetropolitan: Filth of the City.

She also contributed lyrics to the Philip Glass album Songs for Liquid Days, she also contributed a spoken-word piece to a tribute album in honor of John Cage.

She recorded " The Day I Fall in Love " as a duet with James Ingram for the feature film Beethoven's 2nd ( 1993 ).

She bettered this mark in 1990 with a speed of-a record which stood until 1993.

She has won or shared first in the chess tournaments of Hastings 1993, Madrid 1994, León 1996, U. S. Open 1998, Hoogeveen 1999, Siegman 1999, Japfa 2000, and the Najdorf Memorial 2000.

She was nominated by President Bill Clinton on February 11, 1993, and confirmed on March 11, 1993.

She told the Florida newspaper Today in August 1993 that she had found Superman's invulnerability dull, and that DC's flagship hero might be more interesting with an Achilles ' heel such as adverse reactions to a fragment of his home planet.

She had to back out of the role of Abby McDeere in The Firm ( 1993 ), with Tom Cruise, upon discovering that she was pregnant with her second child ( son Hopper Penn ).

She later appeared in several films, such as Love Potion No. 9 ( 1992 ), The Thing Called Love ( 1993 ) and Fire on the Amazon.

She remained extremely popular among many ANC supporters, and, in December 1993 and April 1997, she was elected president of the ANC Women's League, though she withdrew her candidacy for ANC Deputy President at the movement's Mafikeng conference in December 1997.

She was inducted into the U. S. Olympic Hall of Fame in 1983, honored with the National Sports Award in 1993, and inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1994.

She was arrested with her husband, Paul Bernardo in 1993.

She became a film star in Europe with a string of successful films, including L ' étudiante ( 1988 ), Pacific Palisades ( 1990 ), and Fanfan ( 1993 ).

She also appeared in a 1988 remake of Roger Vadim's provocative And God Created Woman, Ron Howard's Backdraft ( 1991 ) and in 1993, starred as a defense lawyer in Sidney Lumet's murder drama Guilty as Sin.

She was a child actor in the 1990s, starring in movies such as All I Want for Christmas ( 1991 ), Patriot Games ( 1992 ), Hocus Pocus ( 1993 ), Monkey Trouble ( 1994 ), Now and Then ( 1995 ), and Alaska ( 1996 ).

She reached the third round at the 1993 Australian Open doubles competition with Chanda Rubin.

She qualified for the 1993 Australian Open, reaching the third round before falling to Mary Pierce.

She reached the third round at the 1993 Wimbledon Championships, and at the 1993 US Open, the American reached the fourth round ranked no.

She sparked the interest of Steven Spielberg, who offered her several parts including a role in Jurassic Park which she declined, choosing instead to join Krzysztof Kieślowski on the set of Three Colors: Blue ( 1993 ), a performance for which she won the Venice Film Festival Award for Best Actress and a César.

She is best known for her 1993 novel The Stone Diaries, which won the U. S. Pulitzer Prize for Fiction as well as the Governor General's Award in Canada.

She also starred in Arizona Dream in 1993.

She subsequently founded and worked with the Sauvé Foundation until her death, caused by Hodgkin's lymphoma, on January 26, 1993.

She was awarded the Right Livelihood Award in 1993.

She is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and of the American Psychological Association, and served as president of the International Association for the Study of Child Language from 1990 to 1993.