Stewart Wieck

Stewart Douglas Wieck (May 10, 1968 – June 22, 2017) was one of the founders of the publishing company White Wolf Publishing He was also one of the original writers of Mage: The Ascension.

Career Stewart Wieck was born in Freeport, Illinois, in 1968. He and his brother Steve Wieck had their first published work in 1986 with the adventure The Secret in the Swamp for Villains & Vigilantes from Fantasy Games Unlimited. Later that same year, while they were still in high school in Georgia, the brothers began self-publishing their own magazine, Arcanum; Stewart soon retitled the magazine as White Wolf, publishing the first issue in August 1986.

The Wiecks had befriended the company Lion Rampant, and when that company encountered financial trouble, White Wolf and Lion Rampant made the decision to merge into the new White Wolf Game Studio, with Stewart Wieck and Mark Rein-Hagen as its co-owners.

Rein-Hagen was working on games for White Wolf, so Wieck took care of the business side of the company until he chose his brother Steve to be the new CEO of White Wolf in 1993.

He co-edited the 1998 book The Essential World of Darkness, a collection of novels. Wieck is also an author of several novels and a number of short stories.