Jessica "Decca" Aitkenhead was born on 1971 and is an English journalist, writer and broadcaster.
11 Facts About Decca Aitkenhead
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Decca Aitkenhead's father was a teacher in Bristol before becoming a builder after the family moved to the country.
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Decca Aitkenhead's mother was diagnosed with terminal breast cancer and died when Aitkenhead was nine.
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Many years later, Decca Aitkenhead discovered that her mother had killed herself.
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Decca Aitkenhead studied Politics and Modern History at the University of Manchester, where she worked for the Manchester Evening News as a columnist and feature writer.
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Decca Aitkenhead wrote for The Independent from 1995 before joining The Guardian in 1997, but left the paper in 1999 to write her first book.
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Decca Aitkenhead was appointed Chief Interviewer at The Sunday Times.
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Decca Aitkenhead is a contributor to radio and television programmes.
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Decca Aitkenhead has written about their relationship, and the process of mourning in her memoir All at Sea.
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Just over a year after Wilkinson died, Decca Aitkenhead discovered she was suffering from an aggressive form of breast cancer with a genetic link.
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Decca Aitkenhead was the winner of the BBC's 2020 Russell Prize for best writing for her article How a Jamaican Psychedelic Mushroom Retreat Helped Me Process My Grief, published in The Times.