[2] She graduated from Hyde Park High School, and completed a bachelor's degree at the University of Chicago in 1910.

[3] Weil and her partner Gertrude Emerson traveled in Korea, Japan, India, and China in 1915 and 1916, interviewing political leaders and reporting on sports,[4] theatre,[5] and other cultural events.

[10] She corresponded with Edna W. Underwood,[11] Rose Wilder Lane, Kenneth Durant, and Ernestine Evans in the 1910s and 1920s.

She wrote the foreword to Thai writer Kumut Chandruang's English-language memoir, My Boyhood in Siam, published in 1938.

[15] Weil had a longtime professional and personal relationship with fellow writer Gertrude Emerson, beginning in 1914; they traveled together, and shared an apartment in New York City.