Jason Goldman

Jason Goldman is the a character in the book The Princess Bride.

Novel biography
Jason was born in December 1962 to screenwriter Billy Goldman and child psychiatrist Helen Goldman.

On Jason's tenth birthday in 1972, Billy had one of his lawyers buy The Princess Bride, a Florinese book that Billy's father read to him when he was a child. Jason only made it to chapter 1 before giving up, and soon his father found out why: the book wasn't just a fun adventure tale, it was about monarchial decline.

Physical description
Jason is overweight, described so in the book: "paint him yellow, and he'd mop up for the school sumo team. A blimp".

Trivia

 * In real life, William Goldman did not have a son, he had two daughters.