If this is for a lit class I hope to god you're not writing about Dean Koontz.
What exactly are you defining as modern? Koontz or Hemingway? There's a pretty big distinction.
If you think of it formally: you can imitate Hemingway, in fact there are national contests where people submit stories in the style of Hemingway. There is no such thing for some mystery writer like Dean Koontz. You can say the same for Irving, Poe, and Thoreau as you can for Hemingway. You might want to concentrate on why this is true, and how, formally, the authors are all connected to one another and to contemporarily valid authors as a whole.
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