[6] Raj Kamal was born in a Brahmin family at Rampur Haveli (a village near Muraliganj which was his mother's home) in northern Bihar.
[1] He was eldest son of Madhusudan Choudhary, a noted scholar of his time and a resident of Mahishi village.
When Rajkamal was barely 10–12 years old, he suffered the loss of his mother, Triveni Devi,[1] which left a deep imprint on his mind.
[citation needed] He spent his childhood in Mahishi village of Saharsa district of northern Bihar.
[1] Arrival of step mother in his house was the beginning of a tumultuous relationship between Rajkamal and his father.
[citation needed] Rajkamal passed his matriculation examination in 1947 from Nawada high school in Bihar.
For many distractions that came to Rajkamal at that time, he could not successfully complete his intermediate (commerce) program at Bhagalpur and got himself enorolled at Gaya College.
After that he worked as a journalist,writer, poet and translator during six years of stay in Calcutta and later part of his short life.
Fighting bad health, money problems and intellectual clashes inside his own mind, he wrote until his death.
He married his first wife Shashikanta Chaudhary of Chanpura Darbhanga in 1951 at Saurath Sabaha where all nubile youths used to congregate.
By the time he started publishing his work in Hindi regularly, he had already established as a writer of repute in Maithili in a very short span of time give to his farsighted, timeless work which vehemently attacked social taboos of Mithila (Maithili Language Speaking Area) deeply ingrained in its culture.
It was titled Kavita Rajkamalak edited my Mohan Bhardwaj.One of uniqueness of his style of poetry is that he did not follow any meter, any rhyme or any set structure in his poems.
In Maithili he wrote nearly 100 poems, three novels, 37 stories, three one act plays and four critical essays.
The vast literature that he penned in a short 13 years of literary life, majority of his work remained unpublished till his death.
Nearly ten months after his death, his friends at BIT Sindri brought the first collection of his Maithili short stories Lalka Paag.
In this particular story, he shows how the mother (the Vishadhar) does not care to set up her young daughter's (the Champakali) marriage to an old man just to free herself up (due to her poor background which won't allow her pay the dowry which is another malady of that society).
According to his wife Shashikanta Chaudhary, the time after 1960 was very suitable for his creative pursuits as he was living a more "settled" life.
He wrote eight novels, about 250 poems, 92 stories, 55 essays, three plays and five regular columns in Hindi.Rajkamal started to write in Hindi from 1956.
For example a sixteen-year young women married to a sixty-two-year-old man will never have her sexual desires fulfilled.
Among the 23 awardees Balbir Madhopuri, a renowned Punjabi writer has received the Sahitya Akademy Award for Translation in 2013 for “Raj Kamal Chaudhary Dian Chonvian Khananiyan” (Selected Stories of Raj Kamal Chaudhary).
[citation needed] He was in close contact with Patna-based Malay Roy Choudhury, Subimal Basak and Samir Roychoudhury of the "Bhukhi Peerhi" movement.
[citation needed] हमरा दुःख जे कविता हमार काँचे रहि गेल एहेन जारैन से उठल कहाँ धधरा व्यथा कहब ककरा Its really painful that my "poem" remained unfinished A tinder that couldn't go aflame who to tell my woes [12] राजकमल चौधरी (Rajkamal Chaudhary)