George Salter (5 October 1897 – 31 October 1967), born Georg Salter, was an originally German, and from 1940 onwards an American book cover designer.
[1] He claimed worldwide fame for his design for Alfred Döblins Berlin Alexanderplatz.
[2] Georg Salter was born in Bremen, the child of a Hamburg musician.
In the year of his birth, his parents converted from Judaism to Christian faith.
[3] In November 1934 Salter emigrated to the US and started living in New York, where he immediately began to design book jackets for US publishers.