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     A sculptor, painter, composer — and writer, Robert Burdette Sweet has always been a teacher, first at New Trier High School, Winnetka, Ill., then Wright Junior College, Chicago, then Kendall College, Evanston, Ill., and finally, after a Ph.D. in literature and creative writing from the University of Denver, a professor of creative writing at San Jose State University, California, from which he has recently retired. He now has created a course called Art Process Realization which he teaches from his home in Redwood City, CA.
     His short stories, poetry and essays have appeared in some fifty magazines such as The Chelsea Review, Chicago Review, Kansas Quarterly, James White Review, The New York Quarterly, California Quarterly, Spectacle, Walt Whitman Review and The Humanist. His short stories have been listed and on the role of honor of The Best American Short Stories. Poems have been anthologized in Magazine Verse: Yearbook of American Poetry and received 3rd prize from the American Academy of Poets. A three-act play won a First Prize from the Chicago Drama Club. Three sculptures were shown by Levi Strauss & Co., San Francisco, another in the Triton Museum, Santa Clara, CA, and another won First Prize in the San Diego AIDS Art Alive Show.
     He has written and published five novels, a book of short stories, one of poetry and a book about writing: Memory of Fire, Dame America, The Mambo, Akbar the Great, Lord of the Mayas, White Sambo, Sex, Power, Death ,and Writing Toward Wisdom: the Writer as Shaman.
     White Sambo, a novel in the form of a story-cycle, spans, in electrifying detail and with equal parts humor and tragedy, the life of an American gay man from 1930 to 2015. The title comments strongly on the parallel between black and gay social and political movements and how these attitudes and changes affect the individual. Shelby Steele, National Book Award winning author for The Content of our Character, says ,"White Sambo shows a virtuosic command of fictional techniques, but Sweet is not showing off. His style is never merely an overlay, but always organic to the stories. And in this day when so many writers are specialists in the angst of their demographic group, Sweet manages to imbue his characters with human credibility and their situations with utterly recognizable tensions. And probably because of this, White Sambo offers a more powerful and touching vision of gay life than one could ever find in more politicized accounts. Here, it is always the people who matter. For me this book was a find."

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