The agent's statement came after it emerged that investigators for the State of Alabama had interviewed Lee and others in connection with a complaint of potential elder abuse, said to have been made anonymously by a doctor who knows Lee, and said he had been alarmed by reports of her frailty.
Nurnberg said "surprised" to hear of the anonymous complaint. "Having spent time with her [Harper Lee] over the last couple of years, I can categorically state that she is in full possession of her mental faculties," he said, in a statement. "We have had wonderful discussions ranging over many subjects from the state of contemporary politics to University life in England – she spent time as an undergraduate in Oxford – about literature, about writing and about specific authors: she does a fine imitation of C S Lewis whose lectures she attended at the time.
"The fact that she is hard of hearing and suffers from some macular degeneration (entirely common for someone in their late eighties) has no bearing whatsoever on her quick wit or of speaking her mind on all manner of things. That she chose many years ago to lead a quiet life away from the world at large (the last time she spoke to the press was, I believe, in 1964) is her prerogative and should be respected."
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