Editing Catherine Yronwode (section)

==Early life==
Catherine Anna Manfredi was born in 1947 in San Francisco. Her father was Joseph Manfredi, a [[Sicilian American]] abstract artist, and her mother, Liselotte Erlanger, a writer, was an [[Ashkenazi Jew]]ish [[refugee]] from [[Nazi]] Germany.<ref name="yronwode.com">{{cite web|url=http://www.yronwode.com/catherine.html|title= More About Cat|author=Catherine Yronwode|publisher=yronwode.com|access-date=2006-09-25}}</ref> She is a cousin of the composer [[Franz Reizenstein]] and the economist [[Otto Eckstein]].<ref name="kunstvilla">{{cite web|url=https://www.kunstkulturquartier.de/fileadmin/allgemein/7_Kunstvilla/Pdfs/2021_Kunstvilla_Hopf_Guide_engl_Smartphone.pdf|title=The Nuremberg Hop Merchant and Banker Family Hopf|author=Andrea Dippel|publisher=Kunstvilla Museum|access-date=2023-08-18}}</ref><ref name="kohn"> {{cite web|url=http://www.yronwode.com/kohn-erlanger-family.html|title=German Jewish Families in the Hops Trade in Franconia: Writers, Musicians, Scientists, Lawyers, Bankers, and Doctors|publisher=yronwode.com|access-date=2023-05-12}}</ref> Manfredi grew up in [[Berkeley, California|Berkeley]] and [[Santa Monica, California|Santa Monica]], and traveling abroad.<ref name="wicker">Wicker, Christine (2005). ''Not in Kansas Anymore – A Curious Tale of How Magic is Transforming America,'' Harper: San Francisco. ISBN 0-06-072678-4</ref> 

She attended [[Shimer College]] in [[Illinois]] as an early entrant, but dropped out.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.yronwode.com/catherine.html |title=more about cat |work=yronwode.com |year=2013 |access-date=October 17, 2015}}</ref> Returning to Berkeley, she sold the ''[[Berkeley Barb]]'' underground newspaper on the streets and catalogued rare books for her parents' bookstore. In 1965 she left urban life for rural places.<ref name="wicker"/>