The Circus Fans Association of America named DeSanto, who has run the clown museum and research center in Baraboo for 10 years, a “Circus Legend” in a ceremony at its national convention Sept. 26 in ...

Having been something of a class clown growing up in Dayton, Ohio, terrorizing many an innocent grade school teacher at Cleveland Elementary School with my pranks and wise-acre behavior, I suppose ...

All the world loves a clown, right? Right? These clowns entertained (or frightened) Fort Worth crowds at circuses, parades and even Christmas from the 1930s into the 1960s, from the Star-Telegram ...

Diana Wagman is a Los Angeles writer whose most recent novel is "Bump." When I was in college, I answered an ad for a birthday party clown. I needed money and it was a last resort. I had no skills. I ...