I found this book to be very insightful on the stigma and reality of having a friend who suffers from a mental illness. The ‘voices’ have seemed to suddenly overwhelm her and turn change her into someone that not only friends and her boyfriend, Brian, don’t recognize, though she doesn’t recognize either. She doesn’t understand why she is her usual bubbly self one moment and dark and empty the next. What’s different about Lisa is that she cannot control her ever-changing moods. She’s popular, held highly in the eyes of her peers, and she has a sense of humor that can melt the ice off the coldest of hearts. 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.Lisa is your typical happy-go-lucky high school student. 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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