Below are a series of links that talk about Richard and his work. Some might overlap in
the information they supply, but I believe they all give an interesting and individual perspective.
Plese email Sam Eckersley with new links and/or if you find the links I've included to be out of date.

Roy Behren
http://web.mac.com/gesamtkunstwerk/iWeb/The_Poetry_of_Sight/Richard%20Eckersley.html

Design Observer
http://www.designobserver.com/archives/013896.html

New York Times (you'll need an account to access the article)
http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F50615F73C5B0C7A8DDDAD0894DE404482

The Guardian
http://books.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,,1765645,00.html

The Times UK
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,60-2201136,00.html

The University of Nebraska Press
http://unp.unl.edu/

Royal Designers for Industry
http://www.rsa.org.uk/rdi/index.asp

William Patry
http://williampatry.blogspot.com/2006/04/richard-eckersley-and-book-design.html

Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Eckersley

Desktop Publishing Forum
http://desktoppublishingforum.com/bb/showthread.php?t=2257