Question: In the book "A Writer's Life" by Gay Talese, on of the stories told is about a piece being rejected by the legally-titled "Lady Evans", then the editor of "The New Yorker", that focused on what couple?

<P0-S0>  It is a lament of sorts as he is seeking the famous Pat Cohen-type pub of the John Wayne film "The Quiet Man." <P0-S1>  He assesses the state of the nation in much the same way John Steinbeck did almost fifty years ago in "Travels With Charley." <P0-S2>  He published "Laughing in the Hills", his first book, a classic account of racetrack life, in 1980. <P0-S3>  William Shawn, editor of "The New Yorker", ran a two-part excerpt from the book and appointed Barich a staff writer. <P0-S4> Bill Barich (born 1943 in Winona, Minnesota) is an American writer. <P0-S5>  He travels between Santa Monica, California and Dublin, Ireland. <P0-S6>  In addition to "The New Yorker", he has contributed to "Esquire", "Sports Illustrated", "American Poetry Review", "Salon", "Narrative", and other magazines and journals, and he is a Literary Laureate of the San Francisco Public Library. <P0-S7>  He grew up on Long Island and graduated from Colgate University in 1965. <P0-S8>  In 2010, Barich published Long Way Home: On the Trail of Steinbeck's America," his account of a 5,943-mile cross-country trip undertaken in the autumn of 2008 just prior to the presidential election. <P0-S9>  He has also written a book entitled "A Pint of Plain," an account of his setting out to find a traditional authentic Irish pub. <P0-S10>  Barich's work has been included in "Best American Short Stories" and many other anthologies. <P0-S11>  Subsequently, he served in the U.S. Peace Corps in eastern Nigeria (Biafra), then settled in northern California where many of his books are set. <P0-S12>  "Traveling Light", his account of a sojourn abroad in Italy and England, appeared in 1984, after which he won a Guggenheim Fellowship in Fiction. <P0-S13>  His other books include "Hard to Be Good" (stories); "Big Dreams: Into the Heart of California" (travel); "Carson Valley" (novel); "Crazy for Rivers" (angling/autobiography); and "A Fine Place to Daydream" (travel/racing). <P0-S14>  His contributions over the next fifteen years fall into three categories: travel and the sporting life; reportage; and short fiction. <SEP> <P1-S0> A Writer's Life is a 2006 autobiography by Gay Talese. <P1-S1>  The book focuses on many of the stories that Talese attempted to tell, but failed, such as spending six months working on a story about John and Lorena Bobbitt for "The New Yorker" only to have the piece rejected by "New Yorker" editor Tina Brown. <SEP> <P2-S0> Grandfather Stories is a book of 23 historical tales by journalist and novelist Samuel Hopkins Adams. <P2-S1>  Three were originally published in "Woman's Day" and 15 in "The New Yorker". <P2-S2>  Most of the stories take place in upper New York State, along the Erie Canal. <P2-S3>  Those stories told by his grandfather occur in the 1820s; others, when Adams was a boy in the 1870s and 1880s. <P2-S4>  Adams does not state how much of the tales is fact and how much is fiction; some are clearly his own memoirs, others are historical fiction, and still others seem to be a reconstruction of his grandfather's life experiences. <SEP> <P3-S0> Tina Brown CBE (born Christina Hambley Brown; 21 November 1953), is a journalist, magazine editor, columnist, talk-show host and author of "The Diana Chronicles", a biography of Diana, Princess of Wales. <P3-S1>  Born a British citizen, she took United States citizenship in 2005 after emigrating in 1984 to edit "Vanity Fair". <P3-S2>  She is legally titled Lady Evans.