Early Life After graduating from high school in Weymouth citation needed While doing an assignment my instructor sent us to the Chicago Public Library site It states After she attended public school in Monroeville she attended Huntingdon College a private school for women in Montgomery for a year and then transferred to the University of Alabama After graduation Lee studied at Oxford University She returned to the University of Alabama to study law but withdrew six months before graduation Thought this might help if anyone would like to write it in wiki style I don t have the time Black and White Ball What s with the line about the Black And White Ball of Truman Capote s Is it really a pertinent biographical detail to say that Ms Lee was extended an invitation Not being a scholar on the subject I may be missing something but if it s really important could it be fleshed out a bit to make it clear that it s more than useless trivia Why a recluse I came to this article to discover why exactly Harper Lee became a recluse It does not really say for sure I would be interested in knowing that if anyone happens to know She didn t exactly become a recluse She just doesn t give interviews or write novels She does have friends and family and she travels frequently Misspelling Is the word anticlimatic spelt wrong Is it anticlimactic yes it is sorry unsigned comment by User Emilgouliev You re right Feel free to correct typos and other errors yourself New or Nord In the text body the interviewer is Newquist in the references it is Nordquist Pls reconcile Oxford Does anyone know what college Ms Lee went to at Oxford and what she studied while there I believe she was studying law when she went to Oxford for a one year exchange program from the University of Alabama I can t find a reference to which college she joined If this was before the colleges became coeducational that might narrow the candidates down to a few I think Lady Margaret St Hugh s St Hilda s and Somerville were women s colleges What s going on I came to this article cause i wanted to know what was going through her life to start a new beginning of books etc but it doesn t tell that much unsigned comment by User 170 161 69 2 typos in original comment corrected by User 82 32 130 188 Wikipedia limits itself to information that is verifiable Since there is no verifiable information about Lee s literary ambitions and not much about her private life at all the subject is not detailed here NY Times New York Times had a January 31 2006 article with an update on Lee s life unsigned comment by User 160 39 187 226 You ll note that a link to the article is already included in the references section I didn t see much in the Times that would add to this article but feel free to add any information you think is relevant Claims of descent from Robert E Lee Our article claimed that Harper Lee was a descendant of the Confederate General A reader sent an e mail to the Robert E Lee Memorial Association to confirm this They advised I regret that Harper Lee is not a descendant of General Robert E Lee There is a chart of Gen Lee s descendants on the Stratford web site Click on history in the left navigation bar then click on Robert E Lee scroll to the bottom of his page and see the link to his family tree General Robert E Lee has very few descendants considering that he had seven children None of his daughters married and only two of his sons had children I hope that this information is helpful The claim has been removed from our article Thank you for your research and correction direct link to Lee s family tree I went back to see what idiot stuck that in there and apparently the idiot was me The first reference on this page includes the error but I don t know which came first and I don t recall wher