Kommuri Venugopala Rao was an Indian novelist from Andhra Pradesh.
His two novels Penkutillu and House Surgeon are well known to the Telugu readers.
[4] He was influenced by Bengali writer Sarath Chandra.
[1] He wrote his first novel, Penkutillu, at the age of 15 which was published in 1957.
[4] This novel is based on middle class life.