William Goldman, the author of the novel and the screenplay of The Princess Bride, wrote in his nonfiction work Which Lie Did I Tell? that Roussimoff was one of the gentlest and most generous people he ever knew.
Her [Alice Jarman’s] mother was one of the sisters of the seven brothers from the House of Ste-tee-thlum, the legendary 18th-century S’Klallam chief.