"The Air Conditioned Author" is the third television play episode of the first season of the Australian anthology television series Australian Playhouse.

[1][2] "The Air Conditioned Author" was written by Colin Free and directed by Henri Safran and originally aired on ABC on 2 May 1966.

[3] A novelist, Nicholas Lovatt, becomes disillusioned when his publisher urges him to turn out stereotyped novels.

[4] The Sydney Morning Herald called it "a comedy that missed because it lacked deft shaping".

[5] The Age called it "shapeless, disconnected and bumpy".