William Ware (1797-1852) was an American romancer, born at Hingham, Mass. He graduated at Harvard (1816), studied for the Unitarian ministry, and preached mainly in New York, and later in Massachusetts. He achieved literary recognition chiefly from his authorship of two historical romances, Zenobia, or the Fall of Palmyra (first published as Letters from Palmyra, 1836 and 1837) and Aurelian (first published as Probus, 1838). He contributed the Life of Nathaniel Bacon to Sparks's The Library of American Biography. His Lectures on Washingston Allston was published in 1852. His Writings were published in 1904.