Question: Between Frank Buck and Kingsley Amis, which novelist is considered to be the finest English comic novelist of the second half of the twentieth century?

Context articles: Kingsley Amis
James Lunnon
Hampstead novel
The Green Man (Amis novel)
Lucky Jim
Zachary Leader
The James Bond Dossier
Frank Buck (animal collector)
Robert Markham (disambiguation)
Elizabeth Taylor (novelist)

Sir Kingsley William Amis, CBE (16 April 1922 – 22 October 1995) was an English novelist, poet, critic, and teacher.
 He wrote more than 20 novels, six volumes of poetry, a memoir, various short stories, radio and television scripts, along with works of social and literary criticism.
 According to his biographer, Zachary Leader, Amis was "the finest English comic novelist of the second half of the twentieth century."
 He is the father of British novelist Martin Amis.
James Lunnon (October 3, 1897 – November 27, 1954) was a British-born, American-based artist and engineer during the first half of the twentieth century.
 He was known primarily for his portraits of the wealthy and famous, including such notables as Mayor Fiorello La Guardia, Frank Buck, and Will Rogers.
Hampstead novel is a term used – often in a derogatory sense – to describe a particular genre of English fiction.
 Journalist and literary critic Kate Kellaway has described it as "a middle-class morality novel – probably involving adultery and shallow-masquerading-as-deep."
 Author and journalist Bill Buford calls it "middle class monologue".
 A novel in this genre takes place in the affluent Hampstead area of London, or in a similar neighbourhood.
 One novelist who is particularly often associated with the Hampstead novel is Margaret Drabble.
 Other authors considered proponents of the style include Margaret Forster, Fay Weldon, Penelope Lively, Kingsley Amis, Ian McEwan, Melvyn Bragg and Zoë Heller.
The Green Man (ISBN  ) is a 1969 novel by British author Kingsley Amis.
 A "Times Literary Supplement" reviewer described "The Green Man" as "three genres of novel in one": ghost story, moral fable, and comic novel.
 The novel reflects Amis's willingness to experiment with genre novels (e.g., "The Alteration" (science fiction/alternate history), or "Colonel Sun: a James Bond Adventure") while displaying many of the characteristics of his conventional novels, both in superficial aspects such as fogeyishness and problems with alcohol, and in more substantive aspects such as a self-reflective observation of human cruelty and selfishness in everyday relations.
Lucky Jim is a novel by Kingsley Amis, published in 1954 by Victor Gollancz.
 It was Amis' first novel and won the 1955 Somerset Maugham Award for fiction.
 The novel follows the exploits of the eponymous James (Jim) Dixon, a reluctant lecturer at an unnamed provincial English university.
Zachary Leader (born 1946) is a professor of English Literature at the University of Roehampton.
 He was an undergraduate at Northwestern University, and later pursued graduate study at Trinity College, Cambridge and at Harvard University.
 Though born in the U.S. and remaining an American citizen, Leader has lived and worked for over forty years in the UK.
 His best-known works are probably "The Letters of Kingsley Amis", which he edited and published in 2001, and "The Life of Kingsley Amis" (2006, UK; 2007, US), a finalist for the 2008 Pulitzer Prize in Biography.
 The first volume of his two-volume biography of Saul Bellow, "The Life of Saul Bellow: To Fame and Fortune, 1915-1964", was published in May 2015 by Alfred Knopf in the US and Jonathan Cape in the UK.
 "On Life-Writing", an edited collection, will be published in September by OUP.
 He is General Editor of the Oxford History of Life-Writing, a seven-volume series published by OUP.
 A recipient of Guggenheim, Leverhulme and British Academy Fellowships, he is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
The James Bond Dossier (1965), by Kingsley Amis, is a critical analysis of the James Bond novels.
 Amis dedicated the book to friend and background collaborator, the poet and historian Robert Conquest.
 Later, after Ian Fleming's death, Amis was commissioned as the first continuation novelist for the James Bond novel series, writing "Colonel Sun" (1968) under the pseudonym Robert Markham.
 "The James Bond Dossier" was the first, formal, literary study of the James Bond character.
 More recent studies of Fleming's secret agent and his world include "The Politics of James Bond: From Fleming’s Novels to the Big Screen" (2001), by the historian Jeremy Black.
Frank Howard Buck (March 17, 1884 – March 25, 1950) was an American hunter, animal collector, and author, as well as a film actor, director, and producer.
 Beginning in the 1910s he made many expeditions into Asia for the purpose of hunting and collecting exotic animals, bringing over 100,000 live specimens back to the United States and elsewhere for zoos and circuses and earning a reputation as an adventurer.
 He co-authored seven books chronicling or based on his expeditions, beginning with 1930's "Bring 'Em Back Alive" which became a bestseller.
 Between 1932 and 1943 he starred in seven adventure films based on his exploits, most of which featured staged "fights to the death" with various wild beasts.
 He was also briefly a director of the San Diego Zoo, displayed wild animals at the 1933–34 Century of Progress exhibition and 1939 New York World's Fair, toured with Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, and co-authored an autobiography, 1941's "All in a Lifetime".
 The Frank Buck Zoo in Buck's hometown of Gainesville, Texas is named after him.
Robert Markham was a pseudonym for novelist Kingsley Amis.
Elizabeth Taylor (née Coles; 3 July 1912 – 19 November 1975) was an English novelist and short-story writer.
 Kingsley Amis described her as "one of the best English novelists born in this century."
 Antonia Fraser called her "one of the most underrated writers of the 20th century," while Hilary Mantel said she was "deft, accomplished and somewhat underrated."