Zenobia; or, the Fall of Palmyra

William Ware was anAmerican romancer, born in Hingham, Massachusetts He graduated from HarvardUniversity in 1816, studied for the Unitarian ministry, and preached mainlyin New York, and later in Massachusetts. He achieved literary recognitionchiefly from his authorship of two historical romances, Zenobia, or the Fallof Palmyra (first published as Letters from Palmyra, 1836 and 1837) andAurelian (first published as Probus, 1838).