Is he strongly drawn as an American type? (6)
I believe the answer is:
yankee
'is he strongly drawn' is the definition.
The answer is a person as well as being a singular noun. This is suggested by the definition.
'american type?' is the wordplay.
'american' becomes 'Yank' (Yank can informally mean an American).
'type?' becomes 'ee' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should believe this answer much more).
'yank'+'ee'='YANKEE'
'as an' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for yankee that I've seen before include "US Civil War Federal soldier" , "Radio codeword for Y" , "A bet; US Federal soldier" , "1942 film with James Cagney" , "Zulu comes after this" .)