Neal Conan

Neal Conan
Conan at the 2012 Collegiate Inventors Competition
Born	November 1949 (age 67) Beirut, Lebanon
Occupation	Journalist
Notable credit(s)	All Things Considered Talk of the Nation
Spouse(s)	Liane Hansen (1982–2011)

Neal Conan (born November 1949 in Beirut, Lebanon) is an American radio journalist, producer, editor, and correspondent who was the senior host of the National Public Radio talk show Talk of the Nation. Conan hosted Talk of the Nation from 2001 to June 27, 2013, when the program was discontinued. NPR announced that Conan would depart the network at that time.

During the 1991 Gulf War the Iraqi Republican Guard detained Conan for a week. He and Chris Hedges of The New York Times were reporting on a Shia rebellion centered in Basra, Iraq.

A friend of comics writer Chris Claremont, Conan was featured as a minor character in the 1988 Marvel Comics X-Men crossover series Fall of the Mutants, and has been featured sporadically in Claremont scripted comic books at both Marvel and DC Comics as a sympathetic journalist over the years.

Conan is domestically partnered with American travel writer, poet, and essayist, Gretel Ehrlich. Conan was married to Liane Hansen, former host of NPR's Weekend Edition Sunday. They have a son and a daughter. Hansen briefly co-hosted Talk of the Nation with Conan. Hansen revealed in April 2011 that she and Conan were divorcing.

On March 29, 2013, NPR announced that it was ending the 21-year run of Talk of the Nation and stated that Conan would "step away from the rigors of daily journalism."