She was a prolific and influential writer who wrote about various situations through the perspective of an educated Niyogi Brahmin woman.
Lata was born to Nibhanupudi Visalakshi and Narayana Rao on 15 November 1935 in Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh.
The child is male(born 4-6-1944 after his fathers death), Nibhanupudi Surya Prakasa Rao (named after his grandfather) and retired as Professor in Organic Chemistry in Acharya Nagarjuna University, Guntur in 2004.
In her novel, Gaali Padagalu, Neeti Budagalu (Kites and Water Bubbles), Lata depicted the cruelty that prostitutes had suffered at the hands of men and the diseases they had contracted.
[1] Despite considerable criticism for the book's content, she later discussed the same issue again in greater detail in another novel, Raktapankam.