Barbara Marx was born on October 16, 1930 in Missouri, USA as Barbara Joanna Blakeley. She is a writer, known for The Journey to Kafiristan (2001), Ludwig 1881 (1993) and The Great Inheritance (2010).
Founder of the Barbara Sinatra Children's Center in Rancho Mirage, California in 1986, with her husband Frank Sinatra. The center is next door to the Betty Ford Center on the campus of Eisenhower Medical Center. The not-for-profit facility provides individual and group therapy for young victims of physical, sexual, and emotional abuse.