The Radicals is McIlvains second novel his first, Elders, was published in. 종교에 대한 탐구와 신앙의 비틀거림을 통해 맥일베인은 글쓰기 커뮤니티에 입문했습니다. He began writing The Radicals the year after he published his first novel in and completed it in.