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?

<P0-S0>  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. <P0-S1> 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. <P0-S2>  He co-authored seven books chronicling or based on his expeditions, beginning with 1930's "Bring 'Em Back Alive" which became a bestseller. <P0-S3>  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. <P0-S4>  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". <P0-S5>  The Frank Buck Zoo in Buck's hometown of Gainesville, Texas is named after him. <SEP> <P1-S0>  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. <P1-S1>  According to his biographer, Zachary Leader, Amis was "the finest English comic novelist of the second half of the twentieth century." <P1-S2> Sir Kingsley William Amis, CBE (16 April 1922 – 22 October 1995) was an English novelist, poet, critic, and teacher. <P1-S3>  He is the father of British novelist Martin Amis. <SEP> <P2-S0> 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. <P2-S1>  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. <SEP> <P3-S0> Zachary Leader (born 1946) is a professor of English Literature at the University of Roehampton. <P3-S1>  He was an undergraduate at Northwestern University, and later pursued graduate study at Trinity College, Cambridge and at Harvard University. <P3-S2>  Though born in the U.S. and remaining an American citizen, Leader has lived and worked for over forty years in the UK. <P3-S3>  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. <P3-S4>  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. <P3-S5>  "On Life-Writing", an edited collection, will be published in September by OUP. <P3-S6>  He is General Editor of the Oxford History of Life-Writing, a seven-volume series published by OUP. <P3-S7>  A recipient of Guggenheim, Leverhulme and British Academy Fellowships, he is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.