Roy Vogt (writer)
Roy H. Vogt was an economist, professor, literary critic and pastor from Steinbach, Manitoba and an important figure in Mennonite literature. Vogt was born in 1934 in Steinbach. He received a PhD. in 1970 and taught economics at the University of Manitoba for many years. He authored a number of textbooks on economics including Whose Property? The Deepening Conflict Between Private Property and Democracy in Canada and Economics: Understanding the Canadian Economy. He was also a significant contributor and literary critic of the first wave of Mennonite literature during the 1970s, founding the Mennonite Mirror and the Mennonite Literary Society in 1970, and was a contributor to the Journal of Mennonite Studies. Vogt pastored First Mennonite Church in Winnipeg and died in 1997. In 1998, the University of Manitoba Faculty Association created an annual Roy Vogt Memorial Award named in his honour.
