Complex sentence: Catherine Anna Manfredi was born in 1947 in San Francisco, her father Joseph Manfredi, was a Sicilian American abstract artist and her mother Liselotte Erlanger, a writer, was an Ashkenazi Jewish refugee from Nazi Germany.
Split into simpler sentences: Catherine Anna Manfredi was born in 1947 in San Francisco. Her father Joseph Manfredi, was a Sicilian American abstract artist and her mother Liselotte Erlanger, a writer, was an Ashkenazi Jewish refugee from Nazi Germany.