 Arnold Dyck was the editor of the German-language "Steinbach Post" in the early 20th century and the first writer to use Plautdietsch as a written language.In the 1970s and 80s came the work of poet Patrick Friesen, author of "The Shunning" and many other works, novelist and literary critic Al Reimer, author of "My Harp is Turned to Mourning" and the Kleindarp stories, and Roy Vogt, founder of the "Mennonite Mirror" and the Mennonite Literary Society.Beginning in the 1990s, Steinbach's most well-known author Miriam Toews has written numerous award-winning and bestselling novels, some of which are set in Steinbach.