Born September 13, 1919 in New York City and grew up in Long Beach on Long Island; studied at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn and the Art Students League of New York.

Began his career in 1940 as an illustrator of pulpmagazines; he also drew versions of A Tale of Two Cities and Robinson Crusoe for Calssics Illustrated Comics and provided illustrations for Cosmopolitan, Good Housekeeping, Redbook, Blue Book, The Saturday Evening Post, Argosy and McCall's.

After his first paperbackcover for Bantam Books in 1949, he produced about 300 more covers for Avon, Ballantine, Dell, Fawcett, Pocket Books, Popular Library and Signet.

He photographed his models himself and painted in oils.

Zuckerberg's favorites are the covers he created for Bantam F1643 (Jonathan Eagle) and Signets S1023(Spark of Life),1042(The Red Carnation), D1107(Days of my Love).

He stopped doing paperback covers in 1965; since then, he has painted beaches, boats, fishermen and seagulls for New York art galleries.

(from The Book of Paperbacks by Piet Schreuders, Virgin Press, 1981)