Rusty Burke says that Paul Sammon and I pronounced Conan the Barbarian’s name wrong in our audio interview. So I asked him how it’s done:

I pronounce it KOn’n (imagining that the apostrophe represents the
neutral vowel sound, and the O is long) — much the way Conan O’Brien pronounces his name, or that Brits pronounce Arthur Conan Doyle’s middle name. I interviewed Novalyne Ellis, Howard’s old girlfriend, and she was very insistent upon the point that this was how Bob had pronounced the name. She said Bob’s old buddy Clyde Smith had complained to her about people pronouncing the name “Ko-Nan”. Then again, Bob had a cow that he named “Delhi”, pronouncing it “Dell-High”. Compared to that, I don’t think “Ko-Nan” is all that awful.