Elizabeth Fulton Salter (2 October 1918 – 14 March 1981) was an Australian biographer and crime novelist.

Salter was born in Angaston in the Barossa Valley and educated locally and then at the Wilderness School.

[1] She moved to England in 1952 and where she found work with the BBC, before being employed as secretary to Edith Sitwell in 1957.

"[4] Salter was granted a Commonwealth Literary Fellowship in 1969 to research and write a biography of Daisy Bates.

[1] Film rights were sold to Katharine Hepburn and Robert Helpmann before the book was complete.