Growing up, Masters had a particularly rough childhood at the hands of his father, a difficult man who liked to be in control and had a very bad temper.
Once Bill began his education, his father considered him an adult and gave him little to no financial or family support, and so he rarely visited home.
[3][4] Masters met Virginia E. Johnson in 1957 when he hired her as a research assistant to undertake a comprehensive study of human sexuality.
William Masters suffered complications from Parkinson's disease and died in Tucson, Arizona, on February 16, 2001.
[6] 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.