American

Essays

 * Americans (1922), an essay collection by Stuart Pratt Sherman
 * "The Americans" (1883), an essay by Herbert Spencer

Novels

 * The American (1877), a novel by Henry James

Poems

 * "An American" (1928, "Sing of my ancestors"), a poem by Robert Ervin Howard
 * "An American" (1896, "The American Spirit speaks"), a poem by Rudyard Kipling