This film, which aired on NBC in November of 1973 as a Hallmark Hall of Fame presentation, was critically acclaimed at the time, but it has not aged well. Her friends (Debralee Scott, Jamie Smith-Jackson, and Anne Lockhart) think differently and try to get her the help that she needs, but when that fails they then read up on psychotherapy themselves and try to help Lisa with their own brand of therapy. She feels that she is suffering from some sort of mental illness and asks her parents (John Forsythe, Anne Baxter) if she can see a psychiatrist, but they refuse as they were raised in an era where mental illness was considered a ‘character flaw’ that didn’t occur to ‘respectable’ people and psychiatry was still thought of as a ‘new-age’ type of practice. Neufeld's other books have as recently as this spring (2000) been cited as among the best of last year's Young Adult titles by the New York Public Library and YASLA.Based on the acclaimed novel by John Neufeld the story centers on Lisa (Kay Lenz) a teenage girl who begins behaving in strange ways. Lisa, Bright And Dark was filmed for television, and aired as a Hallmark Hall of Fame on NBC-TV. "Right now, if I never get another idea, I have more story lines to work on than my lifetime probably permits."īoth Edgar Allan and Lisa, Bright And Dark, were selected as among the Best Books of the Year by the New York Times. I get ideas from everywhere: from the newspapers, from radio, from lunches and talks I have with friends. It, too, was a success so there was no turning back.Although I do write books for adults, the ideas that stimulate me always seem to come to me in the form of a story for young readers. The minute Edgar Allan was launched successfully, I sat down to write Lisa, Bright And Dark. "And when it was, everything fell into place. I didn't know that Edgar Allan would be regarded as a children's book."It was. "But what I wanted to do was write a short book, full of emotion and detail and excitement, for readers of all ages. She gave me an outline for a story she thought I could write well. "In 1968, an editor from a small California publishing house and I hadlunch. In fact, I was fired from my first job for spending more time on my own projects than on the publishing house's.
"I moved to New York and worked in a publishing house. I started writing early, and badly, sending off short stories to national magazines when I was ten or eleven.
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