[3] Virginia enrolled at her hometown's Drury College at age 16, but dropped out and spent four years working in the Missouri state insurance office.
[3] She sang country music for radio station KWTO in Springfield, where she adopted the stage name Virginia Gibson.
[3] Eschewing a singing career, Johnson enrolled at Washington University in St. Louis, intending to earn a degree in sociology[3] but never attaining one.
[5] Johnson met William H. Masters in 1957 when he hired her as a research assistant at the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Washington University in St. Louis.
[11][12] The American cable network Showtime debuted Masters of Sex, a dramatic television series loosely based on the 2009 biography of the same name, on September 29, 2013.