Lew Ashkoff, American writer, sitting at his desk in the Beat Hotel with his typewriter and work in progress, surrounded by the typical jumble crammed in the tiny rooms. Room 40 with a sloping ceiling was one of the garret rooms in the hotel, typifiying the bohemian lifestyle of artists and writers who went to Paris to live the vie de boheme and find creative and cultural freedom. Beat Hotel, 9 rue Git-le-Coeur, Left Bank, 6e arrondissement, Paris, France, 1959.