# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/shirley-ardell-mason
# Generated: 2026-08-15T01:01:03.127Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/shirley-ardell-mason"
name: "Shirley Ardell Mason"
slug: "shirley-ardell-mason"
description: "Shirley Ardell Mason was an American art teacher who was reported to have dissociative identity disorder. Her life was purportedly described, with adaptations to protect her anonymity, in 1973 in the book Sybil, subtitled The True Story of a Woman Possessed by 16 Separate Personalities. Two films of the same name were made, one released in 1976 and the other in 2007. Both the book and the films used the name Sybil Isabel Dorsett to protect Mason's identity, though the 2007 remake stated Mason's name at its conclusion."
tagline: "American artist (1923–1998)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e4/Shirley_Ardell_Mason.jpg"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1923-01-25"
deathDate: "1998-02-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           53.15
  momentum:             8.515920129519698
  historical:           9.934008
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Shirley Ardell Mason"
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    title: "شيرلى ارديل ماسون"
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    title: "Shirley Ardell Mason"
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    title: "Shirley Ardell Mason"
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    title: "שירלי ארדל מייסון"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Շիրլի Արդել Մեյսոն"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Shirley Ardell Mason"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Shirley Ardell Mason"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Мейсон, Ширли Арделл"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump