Zora Arkus-Duntov

Jerry Burton has been close to the automotive scene all his life. He is well known in the Corvette world as the founding editor and current editorial director of Corvette Quarterly magazine. He also has written many performance-oriented ads for the Corvette and Chevrolet as a senior copy writer at the Campbell-Ewald advertising agency. It was in this capacity that he authored the Heartbeat of America themeline for Chevrolet in the mid 1980s. Jerry was also a member of the founding board of directors of the National Corvette Museum and is a former editor at Auto Week magazine in Detroit. These activities helped spawn his acquaintance and his later friendship with Zora Arkus-Duntov and his wife Elfi. As Jerry came to know Zora personally, his desire to paint an accurate picture of this fascinating and complex man developed into the ultimate biography of Zora Arkus-Duntov: the Legend Behind Corvette. Jerry Burton lives in Michigan with his wife Nancy and son Michael.