Former Mayor of The Dalles Steve Lawrence is donating his extensive collection of books by and about Ernest Hemingway to Columbia Gorge Community College.  Lawrence last week formally transferred his Hemingway Collection to the CGCC library, where a Hemingway Room has been developed to permanently house the books.  Wasco County donated oak shelves from the historic Harding House at Fourth & Court to hold the collection.  The Hemingway Room is open during regular CGCC library hours.  Lawrence, a decorated veteran, found lifelong inspiration in the iconoclastic Hemingway, who doggedly disassembled the weighty, ponderous prose of the 19th Century with such works as The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms.  Hemingway’s short sentences and crisp, clean style created a new form of American literature.