The photograph on the book jacket depicts a naked woman in the water. His "dramatic" style made his woodcuts popular as book jacket illustrations in the 1950s. The book jacket features a torn red ribbon. The first-print editions contain a sheet of stickers (intended to customize the book jacket). Becker says in book jacket biographies that she was "undereducated" at Roedean School in Johannesburg. Over the course of his career, he created over 600 book jacket covers. Nicki Doane, Deepak Chopra, and Dr. Mehmet Oz are quoted on the book jacket.