>> a lot of creative writers but alan ginsburg was pretty well known and alan ginsburg and john de-prima, some english writers. >> my name is robin king, and i'm from grand forks, north dakota. and i ended up here kind of by accident as well. we're actually in the middle of a trip throughout europe and we started in paris and now we're ending in paris and when we came the first time we ran into some people who were staying here in exchange for work and a short biography for george and they said, if you come back to paris and you need a place to stay and what have you, come back and we came back and i'm not a reader or a writer by nature but this place is very encouraging for that side of me. it encourages me to want to write and to read and i'm very comfortable here. i've never been so at home with books around me, ever. but we're staying for about a week but i know i'll come back definitely and i'll suggest it to as many friends as i know that will come to france, go to paris and go to shakespeare. >> my fame a colleen, cary and i'm from cleveland, ohio, and i started staying at shakesp