july, 2025
Event Details
Books & Books presents
Ashley Oliphant
signing her books
Hemingway and Bimini and
In Search of Jimmy Buffett: A Key West Revival
Saturday, July 26th, 10am-12pm
in the bookstore.
Join us for a mimosa (while supplies last) and meet the author.
Dr. Ashley Oliphant is a retired Professor of English with teaching specialties in 20th-century American literature, the works of Ernest Hemingway, literary modernism, and rhetoric and composition. She travels all over the United States offering interactive shark tooth and seashell workshops for children and adults and presentations about her other books. She is a longtime member of the Hemingway Society and a contributor to its conferences and The Hemingway Review.
Hemingway and Bimini: The Birth of Sport Fishing at 'The End of the World' follows Hemingway's 1930's fishing adventures in Bimini, the westernmost Bahamian island, from 1935-1937 and his significant contribution to the founding of the International Game Fish Association. Oliphants research for the book was completed at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library in Boston on an Ernest Hemingway Research Grant.
Her fourth book, a novel titled In Search of Jimmy Buffett: A Key West Revival tells the story of Livie Green, an English professor at a rural North Carolina university who has a bit of a meltdown and moves to Key West in the middle of a semester to become a waitress in a bar. Having convinced herself that she has written the perfect Jimmy Buffett song, she spends her tropical nights waiting in his old haunts for one of his legendary surprise visits and the chance to meet her hero.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Oliphant is an animal welfare advocate in her local community. As the founder of the Humane Voters of Lincoln County, she spearheaded the successful movement to end the use of the gas chamber at her county shelter. She is the chairperson of Lincoln County’s Animal Services Advisory Board and has worked for years to help the shelter achieve and then maintain its No Kill designation.
In her spare time, Oliphant likes to hunt for shark teeth and seashells, garden, travel with her family (including her son Miller and her husband Chris) and float in her swimming pool. She has two cats, Irish Kevin and Tuna. Her lifelong dreams are to own a signed first edition of Hemingway's "The Old Man and the Sea" and to meet Willie Nelson.
Not in Key West? Call the store to order books to be signed and shipped. 305-320-0208
This is a in-store book signing, not a reading so
guests are welcome to come by anytime between 10am and 12pm.