Patrizia Cobb Chapman was born in Florence, Italy, to opera singer Frank Chapman, whose own father was the ornithologist and pioneering writer of field guides Frank Michler Chapman, and playwright Elizabeth Cobb, whose father was the author and humorist Irvin S. Cobb [REF].
At 19,[REF] she married Greg Bautzer, the first of her four husbands, divorcing him after six months [REF].