Judith Mansfield Cody: Never put a piano on the outside wall

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Born in Weakley County and a 1964 graduate of Gleason High School, Judith (Mansfield) Cody has recently authored a new book with a most intriguing title - Never Put A Piano on the Outside Wall.

The book, which contains related nonfiction short stories, is set in the rural West Tennessee towns of Gleason, Dresden, Martin, McKenzie, Alamo, Bells, Brownsville and Jackson.

The book tells how the lives of Judith's rural West Tennessee family members were changed following the unexpected death of her brother, John Ross Mansfield, a senior at the University of Tennessee who was killed by lightning while at home in Gleason, Tenn., on a break from classes.

The dialogue, written in an authentic Southern voice, makes the characters "seem to leap right off the page," one reader said. "I look for Southern books. Most of them read like they were written by Yankees. Never Put A Piano on the Outside Wall has a definite Southern flavor - no Yankees here," the reader added.

Judith is a flight attendant with American Airlines and lives with her husband, Tom, in Rancho Cucamonga, Calif. She has four children, four grandchildren and numerous family members (some of which appear in the book) and friends in Tennessee.

Judith is currently on a book-signing tour across the country and said she has been invited to appear on the Jay Leno television show and that plans are in the works for a movie based on stories in the book. Source: Adapted from the Tullahoma News 2004.

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