Pitcheswara Rao was born in the small village of Choutapalli in Krishna district, Andhra Pradesh on 12 April 1925.
After completing his pre-university education in the Hindu College, Machilipatnam, he joined the Indian Navy in 1945 as a Mechanical Engineer.
[2] After leaving Indian Navy, Pitcheswara Rao worked as a journalist in "Vishalandhra" a Telugu daily newspaper for a few years.
During this period, he also established himself as a Telugu writer, and wrote several short stories, radio plays and sketches.
Pitcheswara Rao's wife, Chouda Rani, was the youngest daughter of Tripuraneni Ramaswamy, a well known Telugu poet and social reformer.